Making the grid less reliable?

Fuel Fix:

When future policy makers go back and study the U.S. energy industry in the 2010s, one of the defining trends will be the sudden decline of coal and nuclear plants.

Whether this is the beginning of a great new era of American energy or a disaster in the making is the subject of much debate.

And now add another voice to the mix, as the research firm IHS Markit warned in a report released Tuesday that the shift away from coal and nuclear is likely to leave the U.S. grid overly reliant on natural gas and renewable forms of energy and prone to more expensive and volatile electricity prices than we currently enjoy.

"Over the last three years, the problem only seems to have gotten worse," said Lawrence Makovich, chief power strategist at IHS and the study's lead author.
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What Makovich sees is a confused energy market with criss-crossing and contradictory incentives for carbon-free energy that favors wind and solar energy through tax incentives but does not do enough to incentivise carbon-free nuclear.
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There is a segment of the public that was nuclear phobic before they were carbon phobic.  That segment that is seeking more subsidies for wind and solar energy was also driving up the cost of nuclear energy by increased regulation and litigation to block new plants.  If they were really concerned about CO2 they would not be trying to block nuclear plants which are much more dependable and reliable than either wind or solar.

The fact is that the anti-energy left has segments in that oppose every kind of energy including that from wind and solar.  They have way too much influence on energy policy regardless of the energy used.