> While historically large power grids used unvarying power plants to meet the base load, there is no specific technical requirement for this to be so. The base

> While historically large power grids used unvarying power plants to meet the base load, there is no specific technical requirement for this to be so. The base load can equally well be met by the appropriate quantity of intermittent power sources and dispatchable generation.[3][4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_load#Description https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_load#Description It is a straight LCOE shoot out. Storage may help at the limits but is a pure loss from a system perspective.