Emeric Massaut

@emassaut.bsky.social

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Aerospace Engineer from @southampton.ac.uk working as railway signaling Engineer. Co-President elect of @VoltBelgium.org Interested in Mobility and Energy systems. Born @ 352ppm

Extract of the document shared in the previous post. With an important highlight in this text: “Subsidies for nuclear energy, after being stable for several years since 2015 (averaging at EUR 4.2 billion), reached almost EUR 5 billion in both 2019 and 2020. However, in 2021 they rose further to EUR 7.2 billion, although even after this increase nuclear subsidies still only represented 4% of total energy subsidies in the EU. This increase was mainly linked to financial instruments to compensate for the early closure and decommissioning of nuclear facilities, principally in Germany and France. Compensation schemes are mainly based on paying for electricity that will not be generated (due to the early closure) or for ‘stranded’ assets. In Germany, compensation of EUR 2.4 billion was paid in November 2021, which substantially impacted the total amount of subsidies for nuclear energy in Europe.”
Emeric at the last Doel demonstration against the premature shutdown of Doel 3 in 2022!
Black & White photo of myself, ('selfie') taken with a 1982 Canon AV-1 and Fomapan-100 B&W Film in 2021. This was also my original BlueSky profile picture, here cropped squared and unfiltered.