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by naasking 1408 days ago
> For instance in Britain solar in winter has 1/10th of the output in summer, and we can have lulls in wind output for many days at a time.

Grid expansion can average over regional lulls. Renewables also need to be built to provide significant overcapacity. Storage can help, but you can do it with only those two.