Maybe in California, weather does not look uniform in the rest of the world. December is literally less than 30 hours of sun here, and wind is weak - we're literally smog capital of Europe due to it in the winter.

"good interconnections" on the other way sound like surrendering any energy security - good luck with that after russian invasion.

I'd be comfortable with that as long as we can have 3-10x overbuild and a week of storage.

If you can't rely on an interconnection with Spain then you have bigger problems than energy security.