>Weather is regional. You could very easily have calm air in an entire region of the country for an extended period of time. Even if you had long-distance trans

>Weather is regional. You could very easily have calm air in an entire region of the country for an extended period of time. Even if you had long-distance transmission, where do you get the capacity? You use the gas or battery storage that you have created locally close to where you are. Since it's cheap even at small scale. People with solar panels and some modern EV's with V2G can already go 24/7 (for a day or so anyway). I think you underestimate the power in small scale in large numbers. Solar power in Germany increased by the equivalent of one nuclear reactor in just one year. By comparison, the latest nuclear reactor built in Europe took 14 years. It seems overwhelmingly likely that local battery storage will develop similarly, meaning that nations will get several TWh of storage from companies and individuals adding batteries to their homes and businesses. Modern EV's can power a home for at least 24 hours already. >To actually do this you would have to massively overbuild generating capacity of the type opposite what that region is suited for, Certainly not - every region has their own storage and can overprovision whatever makes the most sense where they are. edit: typo