[epgui]

It seems to me that a bigger issue is lack of storage. With battery storage acting as buffers we would normalize/smooth out required transmission rates.

[ZeroGravitas]

Some of the largest batteries in Europe have been built recently beside these two grid boundaries.

There's a nice diagram of the Scottish side in this article:

https://www.zenobe.com/news-and-events/blackhillock-battery-...

[blauditore]

All I keep hearing is that storage is crazy expensive. Otherwise this would be a very obvious solution to everyone.

[philjohn]

But storage has dropped in cost over the last 10 years, by a factor of around 5x.

And with cell chemistry that is more resilient to charge and discharge cycles (LFP) coming to fruition in the last 5 years (and at a lower cost than NMC) it makes sense that we're only now seeing large-scale investment - the yield curve has hit the sweet spot.

[epgui]

I don’t know, apparently Tesla’s battery deployment in Australia paid for itself really quickly as one possible counter-example.