>Here is a year old article on the DC replacement package, and there are lots of CPUC PDFs that are more recent and go into more detail Uh huh ... you say that

>Here is a year old article on the DC replacement package, and there are lots of CPUC PDFs that are more recent and go into more detail Uh huh ... you say that, but then there is a Stanford/MIT study from 2021 that called the closing of the plant a terrible idea. This utopian replacement of DC with no-gas sources is just that .. utopian. >No, the technology is changing and there are far far more sites due to enhanced geothermal ... EGS is a science project with no clear path to commercial viability. >The GW and GWh of deployed lithium ion batteries seems to disagree with your unsourced version of reality... No! Who is actually using Lithium ion for grid storage? WHO? Lithium Ion is finding a nice little niche in providing very short term storage to even out spikes in electrical transmission. That's great, but not good enough to make wind/solar viable. >Before there was a telephone network, did it ever strike anyone that because it didn't exist, it would never be possible? Uh huh. >Germany is always brought up as if it is some sort of energy disaster, and even if it were, it would not disprove the ability of renewables to power a grid. Germany isn't an energy disaster, but it goes to show you that actions speak louder than words. If Germany was confident that they could replace fossil fuels with Wind/Solar/Battery they wouldn't spend billions to build gas pipelines from an authoritarian nation ... for decades to come. So the question for you is: What do you they know that you don't.