Terms of art don’t necessarily mean what you think they mean. Nobody can take into account transmission losses in real time because they don’t actually know wan

Terms of art don’t necessarily mean what you think they mean. Nobody can take into account transmission losses in real time because they don’t actually know want they are. They also can’t directly track use in real time, as such baseload etc is calculated from the supply side. They can know how much energy they are generating and they can look at the grid frequency/stability. Which is why they speak in terms of supply. Demand is always a lower and only indirectly relevant number. > have firm generation capacity Batteries charged from redundant but still cheap solar are more dependable than individual nuclear power plants. Nuclear power plants have historically have been offline roughly 10% of a given power plants total lifespan making it surprisingly difficult to consistently supply baseload with nuclear alone. Total availability of French nuclear power in 2022 for example was abysmal. Batteries can easily make up for short term instability, but nobody is paying for enough batteries to supply 1+GW 24/7 for 2 months because some nuclear power plant will eventually need maintenance.