Paper Title
Storage Considerations for High Grid Penetration of Wind and Solar Power with Added Baseload Power

Abstract
As the world moves away from fossil fuels for electricity generation, accommodating high penetration of wind and solar energy onto the electrical grid presents several challenges. It is generally believed that grid storage will be needed for load matching as well as reliability and stability of electrical power. Although the price of storage will undoubted continue to decrease it does represent an additional cost to providing renewable energy beyond power generation. Thus it is important to minimize the amount of storage needed by optimizing the power generation portfolio. Source diversity, geographical distribution of sources, and overcapacity can dramatically reduce the required amount of storage for grid balance. Here we consider effects off adding constant baseload power that could be provided by nuclear power plants. Although nuclear power is not renewable, it is a carbon free source and could potentially serve as a transition technology while further renewable resources are being developed. We find that although the addition of baseload power does reduce the required storage, it also increases costs beyond what would be required using only wind and solar. Keywords - Wind Energy; Solar Energy; Load Balance; Grid Storage; Overcapacity, Baseload