“Plan B is turn the Natural Gas generators back on :-)
One the other hand, over a 1300 mile route, I think somewhere the wind is blowing”
That’s one of the big problems with wind and solar - because they’re intermittent you need a lot of backup generation and/or storage capacity.
http://www.aweo.org/LowBenefit.pdf
Whatever happened with harnessing the tides or wave action? Unlike wind, they are happening all the time.