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Thanks for the article. Here is an interesting article on that matter: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ac4dc8

See in the abstract:

While our time series analysis supports previous findings that periods with persistently scarce supply last no longer than two weeks, we find that the maximum energy deficit occurs over a much longer period of nine weeks. This is because multiple scarce periods can closely follow each other.

In addition, there are countries that are blessed to have relatively cheap long-duration storage such as Norway and Sweden, thanks to hydropower.

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