At what level of deployment do the additional costs of deploying further intermittent renewables lead to significantly higher overall costs – versus, for example: i) increasing the flexibility of the system to limit the need to build excess intermittent renewable capacity? ii) investing in a more diverse generating mix including more baseload and dispatchable generation (e.g. Nuclear/CCUS/Tidal etc.)?

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