[baliex]

If you add storage to the network you can store the surplus renewable generation for later dispatch, Europe's largest just went online: https://archive.is/p9qsS

[cinntaile]

Their math is a bit off though... 300MW is not enough for 3.1 million households. That's 97W per household for like 2 hours.

[Numerlor]

To my understanding the use of nuclear would be to reduce the ammount of spread out battery stations that'd have to cover the base load when cloudy / at night.

There'd also be less overbuilding of solar as you have to build for winter weather and day length instead of summer if solar is supposed to cover everything

[pfdietz]

Covering winter with renewables would use longer term storage than batteries, for example hydrogen.