“Smart Thermostats. A/C and electric heating are controlled to reduce usage during peak times.”
Reduce usage during peak times, coupled with reducing usage during times of low (sometimes near-zero) generation.
This was the ONLY possibility and the writing has been on the wall for over a decade, at least for those who pay attention (after all, did anyone ever ask you if you wanted a ‘smart meter’?). Needless to say, BIG LIFESTYLE changes.
The smarter among us will learn how to hack into these systems (such as bypassing ‘smart’ thermostats), while the rest of the masses will learn how to live with some vague entity deciding when they are allowed to have power, and when they’re not.
Another reason the powers that be are working hard to enforce electric heating for everyone.