The big problem is it’s not 24/7. And to make it 24/7 is enormously expensive. This is the hard part.
We can cost effectively replace the vast majority of that coal and gas and stop people building more without it ever being necessary to guarantee 24/7 clean energy until much later. And save lives as well as money in the process.
Why people feel the compulsion to leap ahead and invent non-problems and purity tests to slow that process down is fascinating but deeply depressing.
Doubling down and repeating yourself.
Grid scale storage is lagging, but not by much
Repeating fossil talking points does not make them true