Unfortunately they did it by switching to natural gas instead of the massive sustainable buildout they needed. Good job on reducing thorium and uranium emissions, at least.
Other hand when talking about functional operation. Solar, Wind plus Nat Gas works well together. Where Solar, Wind plus Coal doesn't.
It's technically easy to shutdown, restart, and take Nat Gas plants in and out of standby to make up for shortfalls in solar and wind production. Where you can't do that with coal and nuclear for both technical and economic reasons.
It's technically easy to shutdown, restart, and take Nat Gas plants in and out of standby to make up for shortfalls in solar and wind production. Where you can't do that with coal and nuclear for both technical and economic reasons.