The last three paragraphs seem to be arguing for leaving a place for wind besides nuclear, which does establish order, but as I implied, I realise you are addressing more vehement nuclear advocates there.

As you know, I'm favorable to nuclear, but would still rank it after wind

Yes, and half of my comment aimed to explore how that ranking should be expressed in practice (with the rest ruminating about whether it even could, with the policy tool at discussion).

as the most flexible source, it makes sense to keep gas-fired plants for peak demand, and rapid system adjustments

Yes, I agree, but in what timescale are you thinking? 10 years, 20 years, 50 years?

A medium term solution will be the development of things like plug-in hybrid cars, which can provide a LOT of decentralised storage capacity to the network.

But they would also mean a significant increase of overall electricity consumption.

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In English, "baseload" is all the pre-determined power. In German, only the constant part of it, while "medium load" is the pre-determined variable power. The first is typically nuclear, lignite and hydro, the second typically [hard] coal; and peak load typically gas and hydro. The issue of balancing also covers the "medium load" part, not just peak load. On the medium term, much of the "medium term" may migrate to peak load and thus gas.

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