And TXU marketing campaign to play public opinion to get what they wanted in the first place is not proof of your claim either. Building Natural Gas plants instead of coal plants is still providing generation.
The tables of demand growth and planned generation are in the links I provided. Where is the shortfall you claimed?
Great we replace one fossil fuel energy carrier with another. Nuclear is the way we should have gone and it should be the emphasis today for electrical power development.
Your charts are greater regional. Within these are large areas like “where I live” that are not so peachy looking. Likewise, nationally in 2003 there was no shortage, tell that to those living in Southern California then.