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Storage is the functional replacement for baseload. Lack of storage was the reason for baseload generation in the first place

Japan’s vast hydro storage was actually built to solve the issue of too much nuclear baseload generation at night (to be discharged during the day). Later as Japan added a lot of Photovoltaic after Fukushima, the same hydro storage was doubly useful



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