So the opposition says we need baseload power?  That only nuclear or coal power plants can provide?

Actually renewables do provide baseload now.  Thanks to concentraing solar furnaces that store heat as molten salt for 24/7 power generation from turbines.  These can be mounted on factories to proviode process heat and baseload power for the grid, with cogeneration efficiency.

Making factories net energy grid electric producers, rather than consumers.

Wind power can be designed to store its excess power in existing hydro power dam resevoirs and also new, aquifer restoring resevoirs that also divert and recycle flood water.

And of course compressed biogas is easy to store for consistent baseload power too.  This distributed generation/storage capacity can be filled with natural gas from pipelines in any extended renewable energy drought.

Baseload?  No problem with these renewable technologies.

Then there is storage with 24 hour emergency capacity batteries in each home and storage of ground souce heating/cooling in building mass, in homes or larger buildings.  The bigger the better.

And storage with plugin hybrid batteries, that offset the timing of power availability and power use.  Then smart grid technology times all these options to make it run smoothly.

Incrementally introduced year by year over twenty years, this sort of overall design could get to nearly 100% renewable power.

Any other solution would take decades or more as well, cost more, and not really do the complete job of halting energy cost based inflation/recession and curing GHG climate change.