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Ultimately you would have "solar and wind supplemented by batteries/power to gas/hydrogen and fusion", but that's still years off, which we do not have. So the
by AstralStorm 4y ago
Ultimately you would have "solar and wind supplemented by batteries/power to gas/hydrogen and fusion", but that's still years off, which we do not have.
So the more workable idea would be to have a percentage of nuclear for the critical always on load, and to provide some industrial overcapacity at time.
- Manuel_D 4y agoBase load accounts for 70-80% of most grid demand. Plus, the demand peaks usually happen when renewables aren't producing electricity.