Wind and solar generators happily take credit when the sun’s up and the wind’s blowing, but dodge all criticism when blackouts follow sunset and/or calm weather. The standard trick is to point in every direction – except the obvious – when power rationing (euphemistically called “demand management”) or unplanned power rationing (aka widespread blackouts) follows routine and unpredictable collapses in wind and solar output.
All care and no responsibility, renewable energy rent seekers then point the finger at coal and gas generators – where a few of their units are often offline for routine maintenance, or, if they suffer a breakdown, are repaired and up and running in a jiffy – and assert that the chaos was all their fault.
The line goes that wholesale prices spiked and/or power supplies were cut because a coal-fired or gas-fired generator failed to deliver X hundred MWs of power, cleverly ignoring the fact…
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