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Meanwhile Québec runs on 95% renewables, and we've not had grid load problems in decades. We have problems with trees taking out the power lines, but we've never been asked to turn it down despite most people having electric heaters.
They're always blaming renewables, but so far renewables is the one I've had the least amount of issues with, and by far the cheapest too. My energy bill is 5x the amount in the US and it's barely freezing. It's all fossil fuels, of course, the supposed cheap and reliable.
Renewables are great except for the big oil companies.
I mean, they would point out that you have a ton of hydro power potential that we don't. I would counter that we were drawing from the battery storage plants we have during that period, which were themselves charged up by the solar plants (since there's no reason to charge a battery off of a gas plant).
How to cheaply store renewables is kind of a trillion-dollar question right now, but I'm sure it will be answered. At the very least, we're good at drilling into things and could make some nice pumped air plants.