My entire family worked in the power industry, including my father, two uncles, an aunt and both grandfathers. It's terribly disturbing to see our regional coal fired steam plants being shut down one by one because of politics. We have some new natural gas generations, however wind power is not an option with little wind here.
A few solar farms are being built where the steam plants were so they can use the existing distribution grid, however they're terribly expensive to build given the amounts of electricity are not nearly as strong. We are seeing huge expansions of companies like Google and Amazon that are also installing huge solar farms so they can be somewhat self sufficient on energy.
Our power company is presently operating 3 huge nuclear generation sites. One uncle was a Chief Power Dispatcher controlling the electrical grid of 5 states, and he was a big believer in nuclear power for reliable, stable power.
It's just a shame that the electrical industry cannot engineer and operate smaller, less complicated nuclear generator units When you lose a major generation facility, it places severe stress on the other generation sites. This has been seen in California & Texas when there was not enough reserve capacity to prevent brownouts.
My big question is where all the power is going to come from to power the batteries of Electrical Vehicles. If every house had EV's recharging in the middle of the night, a completely new local power grid would have to be built. Cities' wiring would be insufficient to handle the load--much less the power company's production capabilities.
And places like California have no new power sources on the horizon even.
