With hydro power, you build reservoirs behind your power-producing dams. That's how you store all that runoff during the big snow melts and rainy seasons.
What to do with all that excess wind energy?
Balloons. Big, big, balloons. Let the unused wind fill 'em up, and then when the wind dies down, open their necks in front of the windmills. Problem solved.
Next, I'm working on mirrored thermos bottles to capture excess sunlight.
Your namesake would be proud of you.
I think.
Naw.