“Actually you leave the plants running even when the wind blows. There is not enough time to start from shut down to generation if a brown out occurs.”
And that’s the cruelest joke of all. You have to maintain baseline power regardless of the renewable potential so whatever they do generate is superfluous.
And that capital and operating cost of spinning reserve and their increased pollution resulting from them not operating at optimal temperatures is never factored into the rate of return for the “renewable” energy as part of a full cycle economic analysis.
Like Dave Ramsey says, “You can talk yourself into a friggin’ Bentley with that logic.” Like money forward investment economics only work if you don’t have a better place to spend the money.