If I am looking at what is being planned and approved, the vast majority of industrialized nations are building a mix between thermal power station, with primar

If I am looking at what is being planned and approved, the vast majority of industrialized nations are building a mix between thermal power station, with primary fuel being natural gas, and then intermittent renewables. Even in Sweden with a large fleet of nuclear and hydro power, the new plants that are actually being built right now are a large thermal power station fueled by gas, in combination with new wind and solar. There are also talk about new thermal power stations fueled using garbage. A popular political strategy to avoid calling attention to the new thermal power stations is to not call them power stations. They are reserve energy, to be used when intermittent renewables do not produce enough.