Renewables are the only reason the lights are regularly on in California. Go look at the timeline of large-scale blackouts in California, then compare with the buildout of solar and storage.
No. The reason lights are on in california is because california imports massive amounts of firm power from other states. Intermitent renewables are a terrible investment, because you need to back up every single GW with dispatchable sources like gas generation. Battery storage is a joke and will probably never be economical.
Every single place in earth that went all in in solar and wind is now paying the price of their eletrical engineering ignorance in absurdly expensive bills and low reliability.
