[cbmuser]

Exactly. Cheap wind and solar electricity is useless if it isn’t produced on-demand.

It still blows my mind that so many have such a hard time grasping such a simple and fundamental concept.

[chess_buster]

Because it's just wrong. In any grid you always have at least some form of demand side management. Dispatchable consumers.

[ephbit]

Add enough storage to the system and the on-demand problem is solved.