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by wp381640 1820 days ago
> No country has run on a high percentage of wind/solar/battery for a long period of time.

Only because it's early. The first grid-scale battery only went online 3 years ago.

In that example (South Australia) you only have to look at this chart[0] to see what it done to grid renewable demand and where the trend is heading.

There are multiple GW more of additional battery coming online over the next few years

[0] https://opennem.org.au/stripes/sa1/?metric=renewablesProport...