Air conditioning is a large load in summer and can be shifted many hours with thermal storage. This can be as simple as precooling a building before a predicted price spike, exploiting the building's mass as a thermal store.
Seems like local power generation for local air conditioning would lessen the grid load and operational reduce costs. The government should invest in no/low interest loans for homes and businesses to install enough solar to power their A/Cs.
Most home electric vehicle charging can be shifted by more than an hour.
That's 1% of the load we'd still need find another 9 to even get to 10%.
Yep, electric cars aren't becoming more popular, no way.