[fulafel]

> must be able to maintain equal power generation levels

This is the baseload fallacy. It's not the case now and even less in the future as electricity use coevolves (eg more electricity users move to real time pricing, more storage, strengthened crossborder grid links, etc etc).

[modo_mario]

And in the meantime you've been putting out insane amounts of co2 for decades.

[fulafel]

If we so choose. If we want to move faster than we can mange to balance things, we can also reduce energy use. It's all just political decisions.

[modo_mario]

I presume crashing your economy isn't too popular of a political decision.

And the balancing thing seems to get fucked up since there's still no proper north south connection in the country and the "easy" grid scale storage options aren't even remotely close to sufficient.

In my country (Belgium) too the prefered option pushed by the greens ended up being....gas plants with 30 year profit guarantees and even then they didn't find much if any takers.