This jerk should check with his friends and neighbors over in CA to see how well this strategy has worked for them. CA builds nothing new (other than expensive, polluting, non-baseload gas turbines) and trashes perfectly good generators (Rancho Seco, SONGS-1), and brags about "replacing" them with wind, solar, and conservation. Guess what? It didn't work. Those things can't carry the load. As a result, they get shortages, brownouts, blackouts, and sky-high prices for electricity. Real smart move there, wackos.
The dims are trying to take over the energy business. If something goes wrong, it is just an excuse for exercising more control over the industry.
Investing exclusively in renewable energy and energy efficiency makes sense only in a political sense. If the dims control the energy industry, they can brag about all the jobs created and coerce industry executives to promote the dim way. The dims want to impose national mandates so it is not just California that will have high costs and unreliable power.