The general preferred choice for energy that can quickly turn on and off (in terms of weather changes that cause low production in wind/solar) is hydro. As long

The general preferred choice for energy that can quickly turn on and off (in terms of weather changes that cause low production in wind/solar) is hydro. As long you don't deplete the water reserves it can be turn on and off fairly fast, through there can be considerations downstream. Nuclear can help in keeping those reserves high by reducing demand and letting hydro deal with the peaks. Using natural gas is non-viable. It funds war as has been fairly obvious lately, and it puts a dependence between those that has the natural resource and those that don't. The climate can also not continue to take the continuous damage that burning/leaking natural gas causes. The choices that we have is either nuclear, renewables, and batteries. The natural gas plants need to be replaced and so one can either choose nuclear, renewables or batteries.