Would you have to leave your car in the sun to charge all day? And here’s part 2.

The DOE study found cheap natural gas to be the greatest driver of baseload power plant retirements, followed by flat power demand, environmental regulations and the growing penetration of renewables on the grid. Perhaps most notably, the study did not find renewables to be a threat to grid reliability.

Duke Energy having trouble building anything other than renewable power in North Carolina.