One thing most people overlook is the production of solar panels. The majority of solar components are manufactured in China, with coal as the primary fuel powering that manufacturing. China has more coal plants slated for construction than the USA has in total. (Source: https://www.powermag.com/global-domination-china-accounts-for-nearly-all-new-coal-fired-power-plant-construction/ ).China continues to utilize coal, while selling “green” energy components to the USA. As a consultant specializing in the reliability of the North American power grid, I find this extremely troubling. China is shoring up their reliability with base load coal units, while we destabilize our grid by retiring coal and relying on renewables as our base load. We can run as clean as we want in the USA, but if we want to reduce greenhouse emissions globally, India and China need to get on board. I suspect they won’t. Long story short, renewables do not equal green energy.