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by cbmuser 1732 days ago
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.

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Because it's just wrong. In any grid you always have at least some form of demand side management. Dispatchable consumers.
Add enough storage to the system and the on-demand problem is solved.