[mariambarouma]

this is a remarkable achievement in itself.

Years ago, renewables opponents kept making baseless claims that no grid would be stable with large amounts of renewables. It's now end of 2022 and for this year we've seen on multiple occasions power grids running perfectly fine on very large amounts of renewables with very little gas.

Success, I guess.

[mikaeluman]

Did you look at the situation in Germany? The foremost country on renewables...

And brown coal.

[bamboozled]

Ok so what’s the difference ?

[mikaeluman]

Doesn't seem to be a difference. UK just has better access to gas, for now I presume.

Without a baseload power source a modern economy just can't function. That is why intermittent sources like wind and solar must be a minority of the energy supply.

In Germany they don't have access to hydro and have chosen to dispense with their nuclear capacity. That leaves gas. Without Russia that is becoming hard and expensive. That leaves coal. Germany had enormous deposits of coal.