To dumbgrunt: “I guess you know better than me. I only design the distribution system”
I have old car friends who work there. They can generate way more electricity than they produce on daily level even in the coldest of winter and the hottest of summers.Both were given federal approval to stay open to at minimum 2050.
As dumbgrunt said the average household today uses less energy than 30 years ago to improved appliances and furnaces, better insulation, led lights etc.
We took out the old 1970’s oil filled ballast resistors lights at my wifes office and put in led’s and her electric bill went down more than half. Should have done it earlier.
Yes there are grid challenges but they will be overcome.
Generation has little to do with the distribution lines.
What was the population 30 years ago?
It also matters where one lives.