Your intuition is right that storage is important for renewables -- fortunately grid scale batteries exist and are increasingly popular! At the end of 2020, 34%

Your intuition is right that storage is important for renewables -- fortunately grid scale batteries exist and are increasingly popular! At the end of 2020, 34% of solar projects under development were being co-located with battery storage in the US. [1] If you're curious, Bloomberg has a nice summary [2] where they talk about how much more battery storage the world will need in a future that relies heavily on renewables (it's a lot -- see page 4 specifically). [1] https://eta-publications.lbl.gov/sites/default/files/2021.04.09_geospatial_for_ae_pre-print.pdf https://eta-publications.lbl.gov/sites/default/files/2021.04... [2] https://assets.bbhub.io/professional/sites/24/NEO-Executive-Summary-2021.pdf https://assets.bbhub.io/professional/sites/24/NEO-Executive-...