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What I got from it is that renewables don't have to supply baseload power at all, up to the point where they supply 40% of all peak usage.
Further...
“To move beyond 40% to 80% renewable power (the target for around 2050), Germany could need as much as 14 GW of short-term and 18 GW of seasonal power storage to meet its peak power demand..."
So the renewable part of the infrastructure will have to eventually get into the business of supplying baseload (though "baseload" may eventually become thought of as "backup"
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