Am I misunderstanding this or does this make the whole grid a lot more vulnerable? The internet was once designed to be resilient, economic forces have made it centralized in large network exchanges and thus vulnerable. We did the same with our supply chains, and it backfired so badly during covid that we're still not fully recovered. Should we do the same with our electricity supply?
The gas generators don't evaporate. Using them for a week once a decade is a negligible amount of emissions and paying the entire staff to just mime the other 99.5% of the time on top of a renewable grid is still vastly cheaper.
