Talk:Renewable energy in France

duplicate table of a similar table elsewhere on Wikipedia… technical details not consistent either

There's a listing of Hydroelectric facilities in France on the List of power stations in France page. I'm not sure what the conventions on Wikipedia are for duplicate info, nor what technical means are available for a resource like a Table to be shared across two or more wikipedia pages (edit once, update everywhere). Perhaps this info duplication/misalignment is a recurrent issue for Wikipedia, I don't know.

More at issue is the facilities listed are different (noting France has ~2400 (pumped-) hydro facilities that are grid connected). 25 are listed here, 25 on the other page. Many of the entries for power capacity are slightly different.

I found a Wikidata project that lists many such facilities in France and elsewhere. For at least one pumped hydro storage facility, Super-Bissorte, they specify different nominal power ratings for Charging (grid load in other words of 628000 kW) to what the facility does for discharging (742260 kW for generation nominal max), which complicates things further.

I'm not sure of the engineering explanation to this discrepancy, two columns would be the answer if all such facilities have this difference in import and export name plate ratings.

Here's an external list of 412 hydro facilities if anybody is interested in adding some more of them to this list. It links to source data. WikiData may have more, it would be good if WikiData could generate the list with all the column data, including commissioning and decommissioning dates. WideEyedPupil (talk) 03:57, 25 September 2024 (UTC)