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by adrianN 143 days ago
You can get pretty far with negligible storage. There is a cost tradeoff between storage, peaker plants (those could burn hydrogen, not just natgas) and grid size. 70% renewable with no storage is rather easy.
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Not sure if you read the podcast but the whole point is that over-reliance on renewables without a sufficient means to handle oversupply can cause grid instability specific to the Spain/Portugal grid outage.
The reports on the Iberian outage point out that, if solar/wind had been allowed to help, the outage could have been prevented.

The outage was never about renewables, it was caused by bad dispatch of reactive power.