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Also, solar have zero ability to modulate upwards

The solution is to overprovision and either disconnect or cover the surplus panels.

and need massive energy banks to cover weather/non solar peak.

Power banks are useful in themselves (smoothing over demand peaks that would be hard to follow with any technology), and you can fill in with wind as well, as having multiple sources make times of reduced capacity less likely.

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