Reply to post: Re: Wind and solar

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Mishak Silver badge

Re: Wind and solar

You need something to cover periods when there is no wind. If you look at recent UK data, there are periods days in length where wind produces less than 0.5% of demand.

And, of course, there is no sun at night.

Both are very helpful when available, but cannot be consider "reliable".

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