EDF has a little trouble getting through the winter

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Re: EDF is struggling to get through the winter




by moinsdewatt » 19/09/20, 11:46

France already operates its coal plants
Due to a lack of sufficient nuclear and wind power generation, France has started running its coal-fired power stations in recent weeks. At issue: the lack of wind and new technical damage at EDF, which also suffers from congestion in maintenance operations and a shift in its work schedule linked to Covid-19.


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If the coronavirus crisis, and especially the containment measures, caused a drastic drop in CO2 emissions in the spring, other effects today clearly offset this good news for the climate. According to data published by the operator of the electricity transmission network RTE, France has turned on its coal-fired power stations in recent weeks. This Thursday, September 17, they provided 2% of the national electricity mix, or 824 megawatts, at midday.

Admittedly, this figure is modest in proportion to French consumption but it remains nonetheless striking, in the middle of September, when the temperatures are abnormally high and the radiators are not yet on. Indeed, these plants - the number of which is limited to four in France - are most often mobilized in the heart of winter to cope with peaks in electricity consumption.

Electricity prices on the rise
Above all, this early recourse to coal does not seem sufficient to meet the country's electricity needs. According to RTE, “load shedding” measures - that is to say the postponement of consumption by companies that agree to postpone or moderate them for remuneration - have been used in recent days to reduce consumption.

France has, moreover, been a global importer of electricity in recent days. These imports come mainly from Germany where electricity production generates more CO2 emissions than in France. A context that drives electricity prices up: Monday, September 14, they reached a peak of 120,62 euros, in France, at the end of the day.

New technical damage
At issue: the very low availability of EDF's fleet of nuclear reactors. Of its 56 reactors, 24 are currently shut down. The causes are multiple, and go well beyond the closure of Fessenheim.

At Chooz (Ardennes), the two EDF reactors are being shut down because of their potential impact on the flow of the Meuse, which is already limited due to the weather. At Cattenom, Penly, Blayais, Flamanville, Bugey and Paluel, maintenance programs have been extended on one or more reactors due to new technical damage. Finally, two reactors are targeted by fuel saving measures intended to cope with a tense winter due to the postponement of maintenance work in the midst of a health crisis.

Very weak winds in Europe
"The concomitance of this context with the large refit [the program which aims to extend the life of EDF nuclear reactors, Editor's note] creates a traffic jam of maintenance operations", confirms EDF. Added to this is the closure of the Fessenheim plant. Completed in June, this mechanically removed two reactors from the French electricity grid.

Nuclear power is not the only one responsible for this phenomenon, however. In Europe, the weather is also playing against green energies and in particular wind power. "An anticyclone has spread over Europe and is causing very light winds," says RTE. Last week wind power thus supplied 2% of the French electricity mix.



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Re: EDF is struggling to get through the winter




by Christophe » 19/09/20, 11:53

Hey yes ... when there are 4 reactors missing on the network (permanent fessenheim and temporary Chooz) + prolonged maintenances ... obviously you have to find alternative sources ...

Once again nuclear power shows its limits ...
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Re: EDF is struggling to get through the winter




by moinsdewatt » 20/09/20, 17:55

Christophe wrote:Hey yes ... when there are 4 reactors missing on the network (permanent fessenheim and temporary Chooz) + prolonged maintenances ... obviously you have to find alternative sources ...

Once again nuclear power shows its limits ...


Ah well it's not the wind that helps a lot, only 1.0 Gigawatt at 17 pm for 30 GW of nuclear power.

Ah, Fessenheim shouldn't have been closed.
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Re: EDF is struggling to get through the winter




by Christophe » 20/09/20, 18:04

Yet there was Sun in 2020 ... I am at -300 kWh on my last annual adjustment ...

But inevitably, when we have been pipetting the prices of the PV market for years with premium pipelines ... we cannot let it develop in a healthy way.

In 2020, the price of the toilet installed at the private individual should be between 1,2 and 1,5 € (with a comfortable margin of 400 to 500%) ... but I see that no professional has the balls to do this kind of tariffs! We are still double, see triple ... see more ...
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Re: EDF is struggling to get through the winter




by Energy » 22/09/20, 15:34

moinsdewatt wrote:
Christophe wrote:Hey yes ... when there are 4 reactors missing on the network (permanent fessenheim and temporary Chooz) + prolonged maintenances ... obviously you have to find alternative sources ...

Once again nuclear power shows its limits ...


Ah well it's not the wind that helps a lot, only 1.0 Gigawatt at 17 pm for 30 GW of nuclear power.

Ah, Fessenheim shouldn't have been closed.


I still find that the electricity and gas suppliers are now making efforts. They offer subscriptions that claim to be green with green electricity. The last time I even discovered on this site https://www.monpetitforfait.com/energie ... az-naturel by seeking that they even make bio gas. So I still think that we are evolving and that things can change. And maybe who knows one day we will no longer need the power plants ...
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Re: EDF is struggling to get through the winter




by moinsdewatt » 31/10/20, 21:13

[Reconfinement] EDF plans to maintain all of its activities in France

Usine Nouvelle the 30 / 10 / 2020

The barrier gestures and the use of remote work should allow EDF "to ensure the maintenance of all of its activities" within the framework of the new confinement decided in France to fight against the spread of the coronavirus, according to an internal message consulted by Reuters and confirmed by the group.

While the confinement applied last spring had complicated the management and maintenance of nuclear power plants, EDF indicated in a message broadcast on October 30 that its "industrial and public service activities must continue on site, in compliance with health protocols" and that all of its sites remain open. "Employees whose activity allows it now work remotely. When the management of the unit considers it necessary, employees can come to the site," said EDF. A spokesperson for the group confirmed this new organization and the maintenance of all activities on the production sites.

EDF has also decided to maintain "face-to-face" certain "essential technical and commercial training" on the decision of the businesses concerned and to limit professional travel in France to those "strictly necessary for the pursuit of the activity", while submitting them "to managerial validation". Business trips in Europe, also subject to validation, must at the same time "remain exceptional in the interest of the activity", those outside Europe being "prohibited". In addition, face-to-face meetings are limited to "only meetings that are essential for the pursuit of the activity and that cannot be carried out by alternative means of remote communication".

The group also asks its site managers to adapt collective catering "as needed, within the strict framework of compliance with the sanitary protocol".

EDF suffered in the spring the double effect of the coronavirus and containment measures, which brought down consumption and electricity prices but also disrupted maintenance operations at nuclear power plants and therefore the group's production prospects.

However, it was able to raise its forecasts in this area for 2020 on two occasions since the beginning of July after having significantly lowered its annual outlook in April.


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Re: EDF is struggling to get through the winter




by izentrop » 21/11/20, 00:26

Barbara Pompili warned that France could suffer power cuts due to a lack of electricity production in winter. A "scandal" for the pro-nuclear activist Jean-Pierre Lettron, who accuses the ecological ideology.

Since her intervention on BFM TV on November 19, Barbara Pompili has been under fire from critics. Indeed, the Minister of Ecological Transition warned that the French had to "consider" suffering possible power cuts this winter, in the event that the climatic conditions were not favorable. "We can consider very short cuts," she said. The Electricity Transmission Network (RTE) has moreover provided for this scenario which would deprive approximately 200 households of electricity supply at a time for 000 hours but which would spare sensitive installations such as hospitals. Read also Nuclear reactors shut down, wind turbines without wind, France uses coal and imports This situation is "a scandal" for Jean-Pierre Lettron, head of the platform Choose nuclear, contacted by RT France: " Two-hour revolving cuts have never happened since the general blackout of 2 which led to the relaunch of the nuclear power program. The demand was then greater than what could be offered. At the time, we did not have the technical means to cut off certain regions. Today, cutting people off in winter, at 1978 p.m. [at peak consumption levels], for two hours, is a scandal. "

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Re: EDF is struggling to get through the winter




by Eric DUPONT » 21/11/20, 08:39

I understand that EDF has had difficulty in ensuring the maintenance of nuclear power plants because of COVID but I do not understand why pro nuclear activist Jean Pierre Lettron accuses ecological ideology when it is nuclear which is responsible? ???
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Re: EDF is struggling to get through the winter




by moinsdewatt » 21/11/20, 14:47

Shouldn't stop Fessenheim
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Re: EDF is struggling to get through the winter




by Christophe » 21/11/20, 14:51

Should not install heat pump rigorously!
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