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Re:Hinkley Point C nuclear plant to run £2.9bn over budget by ourlordcaffeine on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @07:56AM (#21069852)
>Such a system will make it difficult to get above a certain percentage of renewables because of the need for gas backup

What a lot of people miss is that wind can be overprovisioned thus reducing the instances where it undergenerates.

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Re:Hinkley Point C nuclear plant to run £2.9bn over budget by Brakenshire on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @08:48AM (#21070226)
To a certain extent, the problem is low wind conditions can occur over very large areas, so the overprovisioning has to include plants built far away from one another with long distance interconnectors. Overprovisioning is more relevant for seasonal variations in solar in my opinion.
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