You do realize that the numbers you’re being told about solar/wind being price competitive don’t take into account the overbuild required, storage or even the huge transmission costs.
Also, there is no storage option on the horizon, expensive or otherwise.
Wind/solar is a scam designed to build our generation as inefficiently as possible so regulated utilities can earn a return on their bloated assets. They get you to buy into this scam because “climate change”.
There has always been plenty of money available to people willing to seek to mislead you in this way. It is absolutely legal to publish falsehoods, even in what looks like legitimate media. People who lie to you about X will happily lie to you about Y.
It is embarrassing to learn you have allowed yourself to be misled, but they are often very, very good at it. The US was fooled into invading Iraq, as in previous wars.
I am familiar with the technology and the financial incentives that drive utility decisions.
Efficient energy and distributed customer-owned generation scare the shit out of them. The game utilities play is to build/own as many assets as the regulators allow and earn that sweet regulated return.
They absolutely LOVE the idea of overbuilding generation!
I’m not saying climate change is or isn’t real, I’m simply saying that corporate propaganda is leveraging climate change fear to push us into a product that primarily benefits them, not us.