/sci/ - Science & Math

>>10080279
>companies you think are poised well for the future

anybody installing wind turbines or solar panels will be busy for years

>>9986853
In the past century hydroelectric was the only renewable build on a large scale. This changed when larger wind turbines and solar came up. Today here are already regions like northern Germany with net renewable greater than 100%. Mainly wind and solar.

>>9966052
Value of 1MWh varies greatly, depending on demand. This is bad for atomic power plants. They can not be quickly shut down if there is low demand. As a result value becomes negative. You have to pay customers to buy your energy. A wind farm can be shut down quickly if needed. So they will never make a loss.
Wind is for free, so after pay off construction a wind turbine becomes some kind of magic money printing machine. Well, almost. There is still maintenance.

Your 95% for nuclear is super optimistic. In reality atomic reactors are often shut down for several weeks, older plants even months. If there is a drought and not enough water for cooling power output has to be reduced. As a result you get more like 50%. This is still more then on shore wind, but less then off shore.