My comment was motivated by my desire for us to avoid oversights for the same reason you list. If everyone thinks that batteries are competing with natural gas

My comment was motivated by my desire for us to avoid oversights for the same reason you list. If everyone thinks that batteries are competing with natural gas on the whole, then they are being grossly, grossly misled. CCGTs are by far the most common "gas" out there, and they're getting built today, as we speak, and they are the ones that are the price I quoted. You're right that wherever, whenever is an overstatement, but I disagree that it's overly sloppy in this context. A revised statement may be "CCGTs can be very flexibly sighted and can ramp up and down relatively quickly" Stability of renewable cost may not be so solid when hurricanes come by and rip panels off roofs, or polar vortices ice up all your turbines. Even natural gas had pressure lows in the last polar vortex, my mom was asked via emergency alert to turn down her heat so the system pressure could keep up. Most of the heavily-armored nukes powered through, but one of them had ice in the intake and had to clear that out. Everything will see fairly unpredictable variability in the carbon-constrained future. Diversity is probably our safest bet. https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=34172 https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=34172 https://www.eia.gov/outlooks/aeo/pdf/electricity_generation.pdf https://www.eia.gov/outlooks/aeo/pdf/electricity_generation....