The current energy secretary says,

“That term ‘clean energy’ is just a marketing term. There’s no clean energy. All energy sources involve trade-offs,” he continued. “Solar and wind take over 100 times more land, 10 times more steel and cement and heavy materials to produce. There’s no clean energy; there’s just different trade-offs.”

The problem with Statists, is that they can only think in Statist. And the Statist sees everything through a lens of 'scale' with government or large institutions at the center. When you stop thinking like this, and start thinking about producing energy for just yourself, all of the problems that they cant solve with their need to 'scale' everything, disappear for you.