“There’s a tendency here to overestimate the UK’s current reliance on wind power. In fact over the last year wind supplied on average 26% of the total energy supplied. It’s a significant figure, but only one component of a diverse energy budget.”
You all need to start fracking. Wind is maybe 3% of US Electric generation. Most of your coal deposits probably have frackable natural gas.
Unfortunately that now seems less and less likely, and primarily for geological rather than political reasons. Cuadrilla, the company which conducted all the UK trials, has now folded. The geologist who was its founder and CEO, formerly an ardent fracking advocate, now says he no longer believes it will be commercially viable in the UK. The suitable shale beds are too small and compartmentalised. There simply aren't the extensive, easily accessible beds you're lucky to have in the US. You're right to say that there's still plenty of unexploited coal: but the coal measures are apparently unsuitable for fracking
Correction——
From January through December 2021, 379.8 terawatt-hours were generated by wind power, or 9.23% of electricity in the United States.