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A local wind energy company took out a full page ad complaining they had to shut down their wind farm because the reduced base load is fully covered by the local nuclear power plant, which cannot easily scale down production.

So there may even be existing green energy capacity that is lost due to bankruptcy if the lockdowns persist long enough.

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> green energy capacity that is lost due to bankruptcy

I think large capital intensive infrastructure is never truly lost to bankruptcy. The name on sign might change and the people profiting from it might even be different but once it's been constructed and operational there is very little incentive to remove it.

Maybe, but you still want the people with renewable infrastructure to be the ones with the capital to create new infrastructure.

Although tbh, nuclear is fine and I don’t care if we have more nuclear power

Is there much CO2 coming out of that nuclear plant?

No, but that's a fortunate situation to be in. Many places don't have a nuclear alternative. Their alternative is gas or coal :|

...under the assumption that wind energy is greener than nuclear.

Or that both are green and one is underutilized...

That is nuts, that power should be routable to somewhere else on the grid. Hell even heating a greenhouse.

Electricity usage is probably down everywhere, so there's not going to be anywhere on the grid to send it even if the interconnects are there.

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