Like the Highspeed train to nowhere, this scheme is not even intended to be completed. It’s going to be a cash cow for corrupt politicians and insiders, milked until it crashes. It is clear now that the California bullet train will never be built. And the California grid cannot manage a huge influx of intermittent unpredictable power. This is the Achilles heel of the green new deal no one wants to acknowledge. The more intermittent junk power flowing into the grid, the less stable it becomes. And there is a limit to how much engineers can jigger the system to keep it aloft.
Agreed that we have hit the point where the graft is visible from miles away. That Achilles heel, while completely valid, is also quite useful in providing the excuse for more government intervention and control which furthers the graft.