the global vision connects all generation and load together to get a higher overall social welfare with the lowest overall energy cost given that this will smooth daily seasonal and annual load curves the role for baseload technologies such as nuclear energy will be considerably enhanced see figure which is for expositional purposes only in practice the ability of smart grids to smooth the annual load curve would be somewhat more modest in the local decentralised setting smart grids can enable local demandsupply balancing including nuclear power employing large baseload facilities at continuous output as such might be less obvious in this setting