Renewables are intermittent and thus can only be used to offset capacity that can easily be throttled back. That's oil and gas. Solar + wind + nuke, might as

Renewables are intermittent and thus can only be used to offset capacity that can easily be throttled back. That's oil and gas. Solar + wind + nuke, might as well simply use nuke for just about everything. An environment with a bunch of renewables is effectively forced to use fossil fuel.