Because critical infrastructure like power will stay on. The load with industry being lower is less. There is no way this is feasible. Plus the grid isn’t designed in this fashion. It’s still independent and can be isolated very quickly.
Thanks. Praying your scenario is right, and is what happens, throughout this.
As of 2018 there was about 1100 gigawatt of generating capacity, with nuclear about 9% of that total. That less than one-tenth of installed capacity can likely be shut down in a controlled fashion during the slack spring season. Some of that nuke capacity has been retired in the last two years since that 2018 reference published.
Summer peak demand usually is around 750 to 800. This might be more demanding, depends how maintenance shutdowns had been scheduled, and whether any deferrals occur during the Spring. Straight gas turbine peaking units that usually only run hours a day at least have NG available at rock bottom prices for now.