Because private investors do not care if energy is more expensive, and there have been massive federal subsidies.
Correct, batteries do this but you need to pay for all the time when batteries are sitting there doing nothing.
I didn't say they did need to be dispatchable or not, the problem is the composition of supply. Renewables are more expensive, so why run them?
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Renewables are more expensive than... what precisely?
And last I checked, we don't harangue cars because most of the time they are "sitting there doing nothing", so in what way is that a valid criticism of energy infrastructure?
Correct, batteries do this but you need to pay for all the time when batteries are sitting there doing nothing.
I didn't say they did need to be dispatchable or not, the problem is the composition of supply. Renewables are more expensive, so why run them?