> No nuclear fleet drops to 5% capacity for weeks at a time like solar or wind

Source?

Reality: a continental mix production is way less variable.

> The nuclear fleet takes around 30min to adapt the production right now in France.

I referenced proofs showing this is insufficient.

> unlike large scale P2G, green hydrogen or batteries which aren't used anywhere on earth for grid management.

Batteries already are (
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/05/07/climate/batte...

https://www.vice.com/en/article/solar-energy-battery-storage...

Even at surprising places: https://governorswindenergycoalition.org/texas-will-add-more...
)

Green hydrogen is a work in progress, granted, however such "it was never done before" argument would have condemned France attempt do produce most of its electricity thanks to nuclear power.

>> Overproduced electricity can be stored. V2G will play a major role.

> Unfortunately no it can't.

What do you mean? Electricity cannot be stored?!

> Unless there's a new breakthrough

I proved (above) that stationary batteries already are a thing, quickly growing up.

> even Germany which built tons of supposidly green hydrogen pipes will use them for transporting ... gas.

Yes, due to a lack of finance and a very debatable plan (transporting hydrogen is more and more probably doomed).

> winter 2022 where the whole western europe was out of wind for 3 weeks.

Nope. Source?

Reality: https://proceedings.windeurope.org/biplatform/rails/active_s...

Check https://windeurope.org/intelligence-platform/product/wind-en...

> most of the EU countries have similar wind capacity production at around 20%.

20% is the usual load factor for terrestrial wind turbines. Offshore is way better (about 2x) but not as widely deployed. The goal is not to maximize a load factor but to produce enough energy to serve the needs, at minimal total long-term impacts and costs.

> France replaced a lot of the coal plants with gas plants to follow up renewables and is now stuck with it. France only had a single gas plant before 2010.

Here is a list of some fossil fuel backup plants and their building/extension dates: Brennilis (1981, 1981, 1996), Dirinon (1981), Gennevilliers (1991), Vaires-sur-Marne (2008, 2009), DK6 (2005)...

> The consensus at the time was that those renewables would eat up the share of the gas plant and they could be removed altogether.

True, however this will only be fully possible when the French fleet of renewable plants will be complete. We are far from this as France is notoriously way behind, partly because it wastes money on nuclear late-and-overbudget projects (EPR...). France was punished by the UE because it missed its own renewable objectives, there is no other case in the UE ( https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/eu-beats-2020-re...).

In France RTE is in charge of the grid (less the "last kilometer") and is a subsidiary of EDF (electricity producer, head of the nuclear sector. Here is what it officially and publicly declares about this: https://www.youtube.com/live/xP4jL4b_Nnk?si=g2-cryDt62TyJWuA...

Translation: "I absolutely confirm that technically every running wind turbine reduces the amount of consumed gas somewhere".