It's only in the summer where peak electricity demand happens around noon. It's largely flat across the board for much of the year [1]. Simply telling people to use less electricity is not a viable option.
> Regardless, nuclear and its permanent poisoning of the earth is not the answer.
By "poisoning the earth" you mean burying extremely small amounts of uranium half a kilometer under the ground. The entirety of the USA's nuclear waste from power generation fits in a volume the footprint of a football field and 10 yards high. That's 70 years of nuclear waste.
By comparison, renewables + natural gas is poisoning the atmosphere with greenhouse gases. And there's no plan to operate wind and solar without natural gas until a breakthrough storage solution is discovered.