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Solar and Wind provide more cheap electricity than ever, so energy bills set to rise. What a grift.
Until the public are prepared to turn devices off whenever they're told, we need readily available sources of energy that can be fired up at a moment's notice to fill the gaps between demand and what the renewables are providing. That's done with gas, and so we all have to pay to keep a handful of gas stations operational. The alternative is that you turn appliances off on still cloudy days, which I suspect you'd like less than your current energy bill
Newsflash — battery banks work just as well as gas peaker plants. And they’re currently cheaper.
https://cleantechnica.com/2025/03/02/in-solar-vs-gas-matchup-it-was-energy-storage-that-killed-the-beast/
https://www.cesa.org/replacing-fossil-fueled-peaker-power-plants-with-battery-energy-storage/
Okay, so your bill is going to be a LOT higher for the next few years to pay for them to be built. Look, under our capitalist system there isn't a way of having on-demand energy at all times without a cost to the consumer. I'd rather it were seen as an essential that the state provides, but there you go