The biggest problem with renewables not that the supply is intermittent; it's that the supply is impossible to monopolise.
We can't seriously expect a class of leaders brought up on capital monopolies and rent-extraction to ever accept the socialised economics of renewable energy.
Ha ha, yes... great point
Well, maybe I'm being overly cynical here, but perhaps we also need to consider that monopoly issue in light of the the proliferation of grid-connected data centres with their own extensive power banks, sited close to population centres?
If renewable energy currently lacks an organised network of battery storage, then data centres would be well-placed to insert themselves into the gap between the grid and household consumers to create local electricity distribution monopolies.
Don't even type that....
That's not exactly the "That won't happen because x, y, z" response I was hoping for.