High level, fossil gas filling in when there are renewable shortfalls is acceptable in the short term due to the rapid energy transition occurring.

Australia is on track to hit 100% renewables with solar, wind, batteries, hydro, and transmission in the next decade for example.

https://reneweconomy.com.au/a-near-100-per-cent-renewables-g...

Europe has equivalent wind potential to being able to power the world. As more renewables are deployed, this continues to push fossil gas to the margins.

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/08/wind-power-in-europe-...

NextEra’s latest investor deck forecasts battery backed solar and wind cheaper than existing natural gas, coal, and nuclear in the US before the end of the decade.

https://cleantechnica.com/files/2022/06/lcoe-small.jpg?mrf-s...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

Regardless of what is "really" cheaper in the market, we absolutely need renewables to be cheaper if we are to survive. We can do this by making them cheaper or by making fossil fuels more expensive. This is totally within the rules and is not "cheating." The market is "real" in some abstract sense but not in the same sense that emissions are. Nature and physics don't care about Exxon's profits, and they don't care whether we have food to eat or air to breathe.

Same places as France, which are Kazakhstan (very nice), Canada, and Australia

https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/nuclear-fuel-c....