I agree the electrical grid is in poor shape to handle vastly different load patterns sure to come.

Many now torn down coal plants were at key locations in the grid, and now there is no generator whatsoever at those key points.

At the very least a cheap line up of natural gas “peaking units” should have been installed at those key spots,
or even wood chip fuel power plants, since wood chips can be stockpiled and are considered “green.”

Coal is just very old wood.

A “green work around” to continue to use coal would be to bury 3 tons of cellulose for every ton of coal burned.
Where would one get the cellulose?
Kelp from the ocean might be the cheapest source.

If you have not read about mining the rock Olivine, crushing it, and adding the powder to the ocean to pull CO2 out of the atmosphere, the economics are superior to the whacko ideas being done now. Olivine works three times better than limestone.