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Finland has built so much wind turbines that in the summer when it's windy and warm electricity is sometimes literally free but in the winter the coldest days are usually also the ones when there's no wind and the prices can get incredibly high. We definitely need more energy storage and - in my opinion - nuclear power.
We dont'need nuclear, just more batteries
Well that settles it then.
Do the math on weeks worth of batteries. Gas turbines run on hydrogen is the only option right now.
A combination of solar, wind, geothermal (when possible) and tidal (when possible) should hopefully mean you don't need weeks of batteries.