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.
Southern California dug their own hole by refusing to allow the development of needed energy supply while still expecting cheap energy prices. Then California created insane legislation that attempted to force the energy prices while creating uneconomic mandates to business.