Or, nuclear.
Nuclear is statistically the safest form of energy in terms of deaths/kWh and waste storage is massively overblown, not even accounting for how we could be recycling that waste in new plant designs if it weren't for the fubar politics around it.
This is somewhat misleading, because the major risks are things like birth defects and cancers which are really hard to attribute to any specific cause. Not to mention that it's stochastic; we probably won't have a disaster, but if we do it ruins a huge land area at tremendous cost.
Also, this doesn't work for every country.
but i’d think they’d be largely automated to reduce human error?
My point was that a grid comprised of a higher percentage of nuclear wouldn't need as advanced networked feedback, as sources wouldn't be turning on and off suddenly.
Indeed there would be local digital monitoring and control with nuclear, but that's a much less risky threat vector.
There is no valid reason to make nuclear power plant controls accessible for control by internet.