Yep, I agree. Build all that. We need firming capacity alongside wind and solar, though. If we use batteries for this, they need to be huge. Hydro shortfall Q1 this year was over 2TWh. See Fig 1 in link below. That's ten thousand times Meridian's battery!
www.ea.govt.nz/news/eye-on-...

Yes, build more renewables. But to get through a dry year without coal and gas, we either need a lot of flexibility from big industry or a heap more energy storage. Lake Onslow could have stored enough, but cancelled by National. Its capacity was thousands of times more than Meridian's big battery.

I do bloody love this chart. Who'd have thought, 20 years ago, that solar would be ~10% of world electricity generation by 2024 - and over 20% in some countries, rising rapidly in others?

Definitely not me. When I started this job I hoped to be part of a solution for maybe 1% of global electricity.