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When clouds cover the sun, or the wind drops a teensy bit, your solar powered generators drop their output. That is every bit as inconvenient as a hundred consumers switching appliances on when the TV takes a commercial break. My point is that undependable power supply has the same trouble as you get from peak loads.
Certainly Enron gamed the system, and yes, I blame the Republicans and the general "free market" (it wasn't) propaganda. That's why I'm here at a Democrat website trying to undo the harm that the Clinton administration did in 1994.
A total nuclear capacity of perhaps 80% of our peak load, maybe more, could meet not just the peak load, with some help from photovoltaics, but it could use its energy in off-peak hours to provide either hydrogen or battery power for all these improved non-petroleum vehicles.
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