One of the most persistent myths about clean energy is that clean energy does not supply a reliable source of electricity. That myth usually includes ideas such as we need coal, or nuclear, to provide baseload.
Check out this analysis from Forbes:
Experts: Reducing Carbon Emissions And Increasing Grid Reliability Are Doable
With the Clean Power Plan out for comment, a lot utilities are scurrying to figure out their game plan — or just how they would work with their state utility regulators to reduce their carbon emissions by 30 percent by 2030, from a 2005 baseline. The general feeling is that the goal is doable but it may take a little more time.
Understandably, the utilities and the state regulators want to find better and cheaper ways of doing business. Their level of enthusiasm, though, differs based on which part of the country they live and which fuels they burn to make electricity. The Northeast and California are leading the charge, having created free market exchanges to buy and sell credits to reduce carbon levels — mechanisms that each say is helping to broaden their generation mixes and to boost their economies.
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Good analysis and of course renewables are a growing technology (set of different technologies actually) getting ever better in a whole lot of ways.
The countries that are failing to adopt them or winding them back – like, sad to say my nation of Australia and the US of A – are going to (hell, already are!) look increasing silly and backwards and get further behind.