[nosbo]

Or just overbuild your generation sources?

[fooqux]

How is overbuilding going to help when the source of the power itself is intermittent? The sun regularly sets and the wind has this unfortunate habit of not blowing. Or, oddly enough, blowing too much.

If we hope to go 100% renewable, storage is a key piece of that puzzle.

[bobthepanda]

Nuclear also has this problem because it cannot be easily tuned down during low demand periods.

Much of the pumped hydro that exists today was built to handle excess nuclear.

[energy123]

Simulation studies have covered this. It addresses it by providing more power when there is less sunlight and less wind.

[snapplebobapple]

It wont help much but it was the actul solution when the main source of electricity was fossil fuels because you could stockpile the fossil fuel

[Manuel_D]

Overbuilding doesn't make solar generate power at night. Days with minimal wind can see 10% average wind speeds or less.