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For reference, the price for fixed-cost plans is around 10c/kWh.

As someone who’s been constantly running an electric heater in the garage while painting my car, I was quite lucky with the timing.

It’s not literally free, though. Transfer prices are fixed, and there are taxes and some other minor costs associated with it, so where I live, it still adds up to around 6c/kWh even when the price drops to zero. The cheap prices are due to an excess of wind power, but once the wind dies down, prices usually spike hard.

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[–] ContrarianTrail@lemm.ee 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

not a single ultimate disposal place for the radioactive waste has been found/created.

Onkalo spent nuclear fuel repository

Also something to keep in mind is that high level waste which is the spent fuel is only about 3 - 5% of the total radioactive waste from nuclear power plants. Majority of the waste has way lower levels of radiation and it's things like reactor parts and safety equipment.

[–] zergtoshi@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I stand corrected regarding ultimate disposal and apparently they are planning to use it in a clever way.
Thank you for letting me know!

[–] ContrarianTrail@lemm.ee 3 points 2 weeks ago

Well it's also the first and only one of its kind so you weren't too far off.