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There was a study recently that used historic weather, solar irradiance data and energy use data and worked out that a certain mix of (over-provisioned) solar, wind and 3 hours of storage would have sufficed to provide energy during almost all hours of the studied decades.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-26355-z



I'm not sure where you're getting that "almost all hours" from? Here's the relevant figure, which seems to indicate hundreds to thousands of hours under your given scenario:

Please note the logarithmic scale on the hours!

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-26355-z/figures/4

(Note the green lines are 1.5x generation, with three lines at different saturations for 0 hours, 3 hours, or 12 hours of storage.)


Thanks, I'll have another look!




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