The only thing I’ll add here at this time is that while the number of women in engineering and working on the line at power plants in the US is slowly increasing, women are still outnumbered about 50:1 at most facilities I visit here and in Europe. With the vanishing of a large technical and trade base, there would be some serious problems until women could gain experience and get up to speed.
If you think about just the coal aspects of it, you need women to mine the coal, work at the prep plant, drive the trains/barges/boats/trucks, operate all the fuel preparation equipment at the plant, run the plant, do all of the huge amount of maintenance the plant needs (often measured in dozens of person-years per year), perform outage work, manufacture replacement parts, dispatch energy and balance load, etc. There are few women in those capacities currently, very few.
Hydro plants need less maintenance overall and have few fuel delivery and production issues. Perhaps the remaining women could form their lesbian utopias around Vegas, tapping off of the Hoover Dam and other large hydro resources for a time. MMMmmm…lesbian utopia…with gambling…and $5 steak buffets…