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Thanks, this is causing me to re-evaluate my views a bit. I am still skeptical that renewables can replace existing electricity generation without peaker plants

Thanks, this is causing me to re-evaluate my views a bit. I am still skeptical that renewables can replace existing electricity generation without peaker plants because of the large cost of storage in those scenarios, but it may be less of a problem than I thought.

epistasis 6y ago
If you come to different conclusions from reading some of these, I'd love to hear about it! These were the sort of papers that gave me a looooot of hope a few years ago. Since then I have found the non-tech challenges to be the biggest concern for an interchange to a low- or zero-carbon economy. As I understand it, the only really hard part is that one week of really bad combination of weather for wind and solar in the winter. Because of that, we need to keep around a ton of backup fuel-based generation (which includes nuclear).