> You realise we are talking about Sweden here, not a subsaharan country by any stretch. In general in Europe (especially in Northern Europe) all solar and wind capacity has to backed up by at least the same amount of quickly available online dependable capacity.

Are you doing any research before you write stuff like this?! It is trivial to show that this statement is false (let's not even get int the at least). Just look at Germanys capacity,

https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/germanys-energy-c...

Wind and solar are multiple times as big than gas (all other on demand sources are trivial)

Also where are you getting your energy if you need to shut down your nuclear plant for maintanance (or other emergency cases)