Articles by
Bernard Chabot
What’s bigger in India, China, and Brazil: wind or nuclear?
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Bernard Chabot
Bernard Chabot is back today with a comparison of wind and nuclear in the "BICS" countries (BRICS without Russia). He points out that wind has boomed in China since the country got rid of auctions and switched to FITs.
How the Silent Wind Power Revolution May Contribute to the Danish Energy and Climate Plan
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Bernard Chabot
Chabot examines Denmark's 2012 policy to address climate change and finds, surprise, that the Danes are well on their way to meeting their objectives--ahead of schedule.
French Electricity Demand and Contribution by Wind & Solar PV (en francais)
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Bernard Chabot
Wind covers 3.7% and solar PV 1.3% of 462 TWh of consumption. Wind & solar are seasonally complimentary. With current policies France is unlikely to meet its 2020 targets of 27% renewable energy electricity.
The UK’s energy plan visualized
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Bernard Chabot
Line up energy sources by unpopularity, and you have the British government's priorities listed; in other words, the government is doing exactly what the British public don't want
Solar bigger than nuclear for the first time in California
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Bernard Chabot
New renewables--wind, solar, biomass, biogas, and geothermal-- generated 2.6 times more electricity than nuclear in August 2015.
Safe, sustainable uranium and thorium in California
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Bernard Chabot
This document describes and analyses the main characteristics of electricity production, imports and demand in California since 2001. Comparisons are made for Nuclear and renewables, with the clear conclusion that present and future power and energy production without CO2 emissions will be more and more based on renewables.
Wind Power USA: A (silent) revolution in the wind sector
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Bernard Chabot
Over the past few years, a dramatic shift has taken place in the type of wind turbine installed, as the US market shows. The focus is clearly on raising capacity factors by increasing tower height and rotor blade length relative to generator output.
Renewables International: Nuclear and renewables: past, present, and future
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Bernard Chabot
The nuclear renaissance has failed to materialize, but it looks like the renewable era is getting started.
Renewables International: Backing up wind and nuclear power
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Bernard Chabot
Nuclear power covered a whopping 87.2 percent of power demand in France and 73.3 percent of power generation in 2013 (the difference stems from power trading). But because France’s nuclear fleet is so large, nuclear production led to a negative residual load about 10 percent of the time in 2013 (see slide 19) – three times the level of Denmark.
Renewables International: The race between wind and nuclear
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Bernard Chabot
Normally, Chabot's presentations are quite long and exhaustive. Today, this one is short and sweet – four charts, one for each country, and a single comparison of kilowatt-hours of electricity from wind and nuclear.
Advancing wind power as fast as possible
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Bernard Chabot
Bernard Chabot is back today with a comparison of three scenarios published by GWEC and two of his own published by the WWEA. The scenarios show that one strategy would be best for the short term; another, for the long term. Chabot says this combination would be a good joint proposal by both organizations at the upcoming climate talks in Lima and Paris.
Renewables International: Comparison of nuclear with renewable power worldwide
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Bernard Chabot
But as his Figure 1 and, in particular, Figure 3 show, the boom in nuclear mainly took place in the 1970s. Growth continued in the 80s, but began stagnating at the end of the 90s, and has taken a dive since Fukushima.