The problem with green energy has been known for DECADES!
Everyone knows the weather is not consistent… so you always have to have a back up that can maintain full demand. This is why those who power their homes fully by solar/wind still have to pay for electric plant maintenance fees in most places. Because there will be times where the green energy cannot accommodate the demand, so gas/coal fired plants have to be sustained.
Roughly 8 years ago the Scientific American had an article about this. Many of the casinos in Vegas were going full solar because they wanted to be self sufficient. This was putting a dent in the income of the utility companies who needed to sustain their incomes, to maintain their plants. It was ruled that the Casinos would have to continue to pay to maintain the electric plants in spite of their solar panels.
In the same magazine an article about the failure of solar somewhere in Hawaii. I guess Hawaii uses oil to generate electricity and the environmentalists did not like this. So they came up with solar panels and battery powered back ups. It worked for a week or so, but then they had a cloudy period and the demand on the grid melted the battery banks. So they had to switch back to solar.
Wind/Solar and such are great ways of producing electricity… but without a back up they are useless in comparison to Coal/Oil/Natural Gas. They talk about storing the energy from "green" methods but I have yet to see them in actual practice… because they are not practical. If they were practical we would see them all over the place.
So that makes solar panels and wind generators huge wastes of money and an increased tax on the environment. Why any of that green energy has moved forward to the extent it has is mind boggling and should have never happened.
Thanks be to God though because it seems like people are starting to wake up.