We're not going to fully transition for awhile. Solar, wind, and storage are all terrific, but we'll need to keep natural gas and some amount of coal around for

We're not going to fully transition for awhile. Solar, wind, and storage are all terrific, but we'll need to keep natural gas and some amount of coal around for quite a while. It will run less and less, but will be critical when it gets really hot or cold and the wind/sun. Mandating a transition away isn't really necessary as those resources are all starting to retire anyway. It's a pretty complicated industry between the electricity markets and state/regional regulators. Just because wind and solar are cheaper (also heavily subsidized via the IRA) doesn't mean it's all we need. They're intermittent and not dispatchable in the same way the older traditional resources were. One solution is to build a massive amount of batteries or a large DC macro grid, but even then, it won't solve all the problems and the massive projected growth in demand. Making demand more price responsive won't solve the problem either in all cases. There's a lot of folks like NERC (in charge of reliability of the bulk electric system for the US and Canada) and MISO (a large regional organization that handles reliability on a regional level) sounding the alarm on this.