The article doesn't even get the units right. Generation is megawatt-hours per day, not megawatts per day. The source data from EIA shows this here: https://www

The article doesn't even get the units right. Generation is megawatt-hours per day, not megawatts per day. The source data from EIA shows this here: https://www.eia.gov/outlooks/steo/data/browser/#/?v=22&f=M&s=&start=201112&end=202012&id=&linechart=CLTO_US~RTTO_US&ctype=linechart&maptype=0&map= https://www.eia.gov/outlooks/steo/data/browser/#/?v=22&f=M&s... Also, the unnamed strawman coal proponents are probably correct that short-term variations are unimportant. What matters is the long-term trend. And the long-term trend is more renewables and less coal.