Fellow Americans,
As a conservative I agree with you some utilities and energy magnates are fighting wind and solar, and this should be stopped.
At the same time is another factor that is overlooked. Imagine if in one day wind and solar produced all the needed power in one state and there was no need for any power plant. At the same time, during that day there might be problems with substations, transformers, digging up power lines such as for construction or road work.
Question: who pays for all this work? I have one solution. We have three entities: producers, consumers, the grid. A producer is any entity that at any given time produces more power than it consumes, a consumer is the opposite. So, a power plant down for maintenance is a consumer as it is not producing and requires electricity to perform the work on it, when the work is done it becomes a producer.
The grid would be a private entity that say every two years bids on a contract, and goes to the lowest bidder. The grid pays for everything between — power lines, linewomen and men, transformers, laying cable and so on.