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>Natural gas is the only repeat ONLY power generation that can absorb demand spikes.
There are natural gas power plants in the USA which use batteries to handle short term spikes. Batteries are one of the technologies which can absorb demand spikes. Natural gas plants can only do it when they have already build up steam and are running at minimum power, which is expensive.

The natural gas plants can do it longer but batteries can do it cheaper for short bursts. No subsidy needed, pure economics.