The price of wind and solar (or anything else for that matter) at point of generation is irrelevant. It could be practically free and it still wouldn't matter [

The price of wind and solar (or anything else for that matter) at point of generation is irrelevant. It could be practically free and it still wouldn't matter [0]. The actual problem we need to solve is having reliable, dispatchable baseload supply that can be ramped up and down to meet demand. For every GW/h of intermittent generation added to the grid there must be another GW/h of on demand generation that can be spun up to compensate when the intermittent source is not available. Not storage, generation. Because otherwise when that once in a century weather event comes around and your intermittent generation falls over, once your batteries drain you're back to rubbing sticks together. [0] Actually it might as the cheaper it gets, the more it drives out reliable baseload generation, which is bad.