"Typically" isn't good enough though. If you have a hot, summer thunderstorm with no sun but still 100F+ temperatures, someone needs to create that energy for the air conditioners.
So the peaker-gas plant still have to be built, and then run at a lower utilization / less profits, for the community.
Either that, or accept that everyone loses power / not enough AC during those times. I've been to the Philippines, some people can live like that (intermittent utilities: sometimes you have running water / electricity, sometimes you don't) but its not the standard of living USA is used to.
So the peaker-gas plant still have to be built, and then run at a lower utilization / less profits, for the community.
Either that, or accept that everyone loses power / not enough AC during those times. I've been to the Philippines, some people can live like that (intermittent utilities: sometimes you have running water / electricity, sometimes you don't) but its not the standard of living USA is used to.