I don’t love gas but one point that hasn’t been brought up explicitly is that gas is “dispatchable”. Since the grid needs to be exactly balanced at all times, you need something that can ramp up and down easily. Obviously storage can smooth this out too but gas is often seen as a complement to solar and wind because you can turn the “gas → electricity” dial up and down pretty much at will. this is much harder to do with coal and nuclear (although nuclear is also carbon-free in it’s own right).
I don’t love gas but one point that hasn’t been brought up explicitly is that gas is “dispatchable”. Since the grid needs to be exactly balanced at all times, you need something that can ramp up and down easily. Obviously storage can smooth this out too but gas is often seen as a complement to solar and wind because you can turn the “gas → electricity” dial up and down pretty much at will. this is much harder to do with coal and nuclear (although nuclear is also carbon-free in it’s own right).