{"id":2888,"date":"2010-06-07T23:01:08","date_gmt":"2010-06-07T21:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/?p=2888"},"modified":"2010-06-07T23:01:08","modified_gmt":"2010-06-07T21:01:08","slug":"national-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/?p=2888","title":{"rendered":"national cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/wp-content\/2010\/06\/flautenkreuzIMG_0023-500.JPG\" alt=\"flautenkreuzIMG_0023-500\" title=\"flautenkreuzIMG_0023-500\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2892\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/wp-content\/2010\/06\/flautenkreuzIMG_0023-500.JPG 450w, https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/wp-content\/2010\/06\/flautenkreuzIMG_0023-500-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/> <span style=\"font:80%\">&#8220;Flautenkreuz&#8221; photography by Brad L&ouml;w<\/p>\n<p>According to what I read in the study <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bdi.eu\/download_content\/EnergieUndRohstoffe\/Referenz_Endbericht_final.pdf\">\u00d6konomische Auswirkungen einer Laufzeitverlaengerung deutscher Kernkraftwerke<\/a> (in german) which was made on behalf of the <a href=\"http:\/\/de.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bundesverband_der_Deutschen_Industrie\">BDI <\/a> (the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bdi.eu\/BDI_english\/7.htm\">&#8220;umbrella organisation of german industries&#8221;<\/a>) (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bdi.eu\/Kernenergie-Energie-Rohstoffe-Laufzeitstudie_Laufzeitverlngerung-Kernkraftwerke.htm\">BDI site<\/a>) the operational life-span of nuclear power plants in Germany to<br \/>\n-40 years would lead to a financial gain (via cost saving) from:<\/p>\n<ul> approximately 3.3 billion Euro\/year (2015) to approx. 6 billion Euro\/year (2020) (table 3-1, p. 34 of the study),\n<\/ul>\n<p>extending the operational life-span to<br \/>\n-60 years would even lead to a gain from:  <\/p>\n<ul>approx. 8 billion Euro\/year (2020) to approx. 10 billion Euro\/year (2025) or approx. 9.3 billion Euro\/year (2030) (from table 3-2, p. 35, of the study ).\n<\/ul>\n<p>So on average one can roughly say that the life-span extension of nuclear power plants would lead -according to what I read in this study- to a financial gain of -very roughly averaged- <span style=\"color:#ff00ff\">at least 5 billion euros per year<\/span>. Since it is expected that electricity prices will be made according to market value and not according to that gain which is due to unexpected life-span extensions one <em> could<\/em> infer that this gain will be the gain of the electricity industry. Consequently the german government (which is planning a life-span extension of nuclear power plants) is planning to demand a share of that prospected gain for their new cuts plans in the socalled &#8220;Sparpaket&#8221;. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/politik\/deutschland\/0,1518,699255-3,00.html\">According to Spiegel Online<\/a> the current plans are to ask the electricity industry for a share of 2.3 billion per year. Thus if I conclude rightly this means that the electricity industry may keep a gain of at least 2.7 billion per year (or up to 7.7 billion per year depending on life-span extension) . It is not clear how much of that would be reinvested into renewable energies. Social cuts according to Spiegel Online on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/politik\/deutschland\/0,1518,699255-2,00.html\">that page.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know, wether the life-span extension of nuclear power plants means that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/?p=1629\">this study<\/a> is going to be extended.<\/p>\n<p>I also don&#8217;t know wether <a href=\"http:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/?p=2439\">inspection optimization<\/a> is planned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Flautenkreuz&#8221; photography by Brad L&ouml;w According to what I read in the study \u00d6konomische Auswirkungen einer Laufzeitverlaengerung deutscher Kernkraftwerke (in german) which was made on behalf of the BDI (the &#8220;umbrella organisation of german industries&#8221;) (BDI site) the operational life-span of nuclear power plants in Germany to -40 years would lead to a financial gain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[25,33,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2888"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2888"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2912,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2888\/revisions\/2912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}