through demand response load shifting and integration of storage applications smart grids might change the load curve and reestablish a continuous demand for longer periods of time this way a minimum demand over a sufficiently high number of hours could be achieved resulting in a role for nuclear baseload even in systems with a strong penetration of renewable energy sources a more decentralised electricity system based on local energy sources could allow under certain conditions such as the local matching of demand and supply for shorter electricity transport distances and thus reduce electricity transmission losses