Even when governments interfere, people will still invest in grid independence, resilience, or just access to cheaper rates. Domestic solar makes sense only bec

Even when governments interfere, people will still invest in grid independence, resilience, or just access to cheaper rates. Domestic solar makes sense only because the grid is unreasonably expensive for a lot of people. Base load is one of those terms that gets wielded without putting numbers on it. It's kind of meaningless without numbers. How many gw of it is needed? Is it whatever we have? Or far less than that? Considering that most countries have been actively removing lots of base load in the form of coal plants and have seen a lot of growth in renewables, you could make the point that whatever that number is, it's far less than it used to be. For the simple reason that a lot of it disappeared without creating a lot of instability. Coal plants don't have much of a future. Gas plants are more flexible but seem to be increasingly used for reserve power rather than for base load and of course they compete with batteries for that. And the less they are utilized, the less profitable they get. Neither is attractive from an investment point of view.