Bull poopy. Had coal and nuke provided 20 percent more baseline power it would work. That’s 20 percent more coal and 20 percent more nuke.
Twenty percent more nuke. Be careful what you wish for. A few years ago I was involved in the struggle to keep Exelon (Illinois based) from taking over the local electrical companies in Maryland, DC and New Jersey. I did a lot of research and found that Exelon was loosing money, and wanted a larger customer base. Also they had 11 nuclear power plants that are due to expire and need to be decomissioned in the 2020s. I dread to think what we local ratepayers are going to be stuck with over the next decade and more since it already costs at least a $billion and usually more to decomission a nuke plant.