California has only four really good wind sites, and they already have wind farms on them. The real US wind belt is from the Texas panhandle northward to Canada. Look at a wind map of the US.[1]

Grid-scale battery storage just keeps getting installed at an increasing rate.[1] 9.7 gigawatt-hours installed in Q1 2026.[2] It's not very visible. It's just shipping containers laid out on cement pads. It doesn't take up that much space. It can be placed anywhere there's good access to transmission lines. It's profitable if you can buy cheap solar power in the daytime and sell it at night. It's safe now that it uses lithium-iron phosphate batteries.

88 days to the midterm elections. Trump will still be in office for a while longer, but with less power to make trouble.

[1] https://energy.maryland.gov/SiteAssets/Pages/Info/renewable/...

[2] https://gcn.com/america-s-grid-batteries-strongest-first/204...