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Is it more expensive than storage? My understanding was that nuclear was cheaper long-term, but I honestly don't know. I think we need both, but I could be convinced that nuclear is obsolete with some real-life numbers.
It's not, to provide 2 weeks of storage (a reasonable amount to cover a period of no wind in winter) for the UK would cost about 2,000 Billion USD at current Li-ion prices.
Intermittent renewables are great as a component of energy generation but storage costs become prohibitive as you get to large fractions of intermittent power generation.