I don't get why the USA are not copying the way the energy market works in europe.
And I also don't get why people like you write so half nonsense articles ... the term 'base load' used three times wrong, sigh.
In europe power production and power distribution(grids) are handled by seperate entities, on top of that are power traders who do the actual work of making contracts between customers, power producers and grid operators.
Bottom line everything is traded via a spot market, power, grid bandwith and reserve and/or regulation energy.
In many places in the USA, it works exactly like that, which is why the price of power is going negative overnight. In fact, the exact same thing is happening in Germany, why doesn't your magic spot market fix that?
Energy storage is nonsense ... just upgrade your grid so you can transport excess capacity instead of wasting it.
Transport excess capacity to where? If there isn't a demand, there is nowhere you can send your supply. In the middle of the night, demand is low everywhere. If the coal and nuclear plants that run at a constant output plus the power supplied by the wind is greater than the demand then spot prices will drop to negative. Shipping your power to another locality with negative prices or even slightly positive prices doesn't help economically. If the European model obviates the need for storage, why does this list have so many European projects on it?