The decades long push for "renewable" energy at all costs has made any consideration of investing in long term base load generation unpalatable in CA - which is

The decades long push for "renewable" energy at all costs has made any consideration of investing in long term base load generation unpalatable in CA - which is why, as others have pointed out, CA hasn't invested in base load generation since the early 2000s. It's utter madness. This is 100% a problem of failed policy, zero planning and living in a fantasy world detached from reality.