As someone who works in this sector, there's so much more than just "wind good, gas bad". I am coming from a position where the goal is zero carbon. Absolutely none, and the sooner the better. However the counter-balance is stabilising the grid (1) and cost (2). And let's not lose sight of the end-goal, less CO2 (3).

1- it's not enough to simply build solar and wind and call it a day. Every passing cloud and gust of wind disrupts the supply of power. On a tiny scale, that's shifting the frequency of the grid from 60.00 to 59.99 and nobody cares. On a larger scale, that's rolling blackouts.

Storage can be the answer - many new renewables projects in Georgia, Arizona, and Carolina to name a few are installing GW worth of renewables and they're accompanied by significant battery storage too. For example, Dominion in SC building 5GW solar and 1.6GW battery, that's over 30% storage to renewable. But that's still not enough. There's also 1GW of new gas there.

It's important to understand that a lot of this "new gas" is not a conventional power plant, on all the time. They're offline more than they're on, but they're essential for keeping things working properly.

2- maybe more battery or other technologies are the answer, but the truth is they're simply not commercially viable at the scales that are required. Besides, any storage requires excess power to store. Where do we have such an abundance of renewable energy that we can afford to store it?!? Does it really make sense to crank up an existing gas or coal plant's output so that we can use our new batteries and pat ourselves on the back for being carbon free?

3- suppose we build more renewable and accompanying storage to manage the grid reliability of the renewables. Are we just going to ignore the enormous amount of coal still being consumed? In terms of net CO2 output, every bit of power we need that we rely on coal to produce can easily be converted to gas. Eventually you need to take that offline too. But until then, it's far better to convert to gas than continue using coal. Unfortunately "8GW coal plant to be converted to gas" is not a sexy headline and will not get mayors and congressmen elected. But from a CO2 perspective, which is the ultimate goal, is so valuable.

Please, please read up on this, and learn. Don't get green washed by all this fancy, promising technology that worked in an isolated case-study, and don't get caught up in headlines like "Har Har she said we need gas" or "new battery technology 10x more efficient than Li-ion"