alt Hacker NewsWhich storage can solve. The problem is that "base load" as we know it is dead. It was only ever an economic construct, never a physical one.
Distributed renewables are unraveling the grid monopoly, meaning you can't just foist enormous nuclear subsidies on the tax payers anymore. They will vote with their wallets.
Some reads for you:
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/The-Quiet-Unravel...
https://oilprice.com/Alternative-Energy/Renewable-Energy/Wha...
Storage can not solve firming in most of the world, maybe South Aus being exception, maybe. It can be solved by gas peakers or gas peakers combined with bess if you go fossils way, or hydro if you have it or nuclear. In Germany it'll be gas+bess but mostly gas, according to their Fraunhofer ISE org. In UK it'll be mostly gas too. In DK it'll be imports from hydro rich nordics.
It's interesting you mentioned nuclear subsidies when Germany poured on it's EEG renewables scheme alone more than double the cost of entire french nuclear fleet, both adjusted in today money