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Originally Posted by NameGoesHere
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feed-in_Tariff
Baseload just means the plant operators would want the plant to be operating at full power all the time (because the cost was sunk into construction). Laws in Europe basically make all renewables de facto baseload plants, and they are sold as such. The Wiki classification is very generalized.
Edit: I cede that you can argue the point as what the term means is subject to interpretation, but the fact remains that the grid is balanced even when renewables produce more energy than expected.
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Every plant operator wants his plant to run at full power all the time. What's the point?
I get what you are trying to say, but you are making up your very own definition of baseload here.
And yes, the power won't go out if we produce more energy than we use, but if the sun shines and the wind blows that doesn't mean we can just save the corresponding amount of coal, just a fraction. So even graphs showing that wind or solar energy fed this or that percentage of electricity into our grids are highly misleading.