The fact is, higher % contribution from VREs on a grid lead to higher costs to the consumer. What a generator pays to install rated capacity is totally conflated with real costs to the consumer way too often. Nuclear, for as expensive it appears upfront has much better cost performance.
This is also true for speed of build out. You’d think renewables are faster but they contribute so little that nuclear has coordinated build programs taking coal and nat gas out of the mix faster.
