the reduction of load factors thus reenforces the impact of the decline in prices with all the impacts for the working of electricity markets already mentioned as already mentioned above in the short run nuclear power with its low marginal costs may well be able to cope with somewhat lower prices in particular if capital costs have been amortised where gas turbines lie idle due to insufficiently high prices nuclear will go on producing regardless in the long run however the prospect for high fixed cost technologies such as nuclear look bleak with reduced load factors the optimal mix for the residual load curve created by the influx of renewables will entail a shift towards technologies with lower fixed costs