Lack of power generation doesn't appear to be the cause of the problem here.
EXACTLY. A thing I suspect a lot of people here wouldn't know is that there's phases where green energy is OVER generating to the points where it's decided to switch off panels and stop turbines because there's actually limited storage for the surplus energy, and in a lot of cases it's turned off because they also don't want to undervalue the energy costs too. So we're back to infrastructure of places switching to green energy but not having the system in place to actually store said energy for later use, causing an overflow on the grid.
As I mentioned earlier some companies try to offset this with free energy days where they know they'll generating more than can be used so they're actively encouraging people to use more energy on those days and not charge them for it. But that's just a band aid solution.
Most countries need a major overhaul of their grids but they also need a solution and a viable way to store green energy, big batteries arn't enough here, we need something better and we need shareholders and such of these private companies to actually put up some cash to get this done.
we can't sit on our access and let the infrastructure age AND also can't rely on renewable energy alone. Especially not know with people having more electronic devices than ever before and the push to transition to electric vehicles. Activists pushing for stuff like shutting down nuclear plants should present their calculations first how the country is supposed to run on unstable and weaker renewables.
Read above, I'm not against Nuclear either, in a perfect world nuclear would be the backup with green providing the mainline. We need a way to store surplus energy when it comes to green and a way to stabilise two way energy across the entire grids so places can feed back excess.
I have solar panels, I used to send surplus energy to the grid to "help" out and got a discount on any energy I did use, but since I've got a wall battery I'd rather keep it for myself as it works out cheaper for me and because during surplus times all I was doing was "pissing energy on the grid", it wasn't being used by other homes, it was just overloading things as it had no direct path back to suppliers.
There needs to be a real rethink on why it's acceptable to do the bare minimum for our source grids and networks, why we're happy to just let companies tie things together with string and duck tape, why we're cool with companies just turning off solar panels and stopping turbines because "we can't devalue our energy and charge people less". JUST switching to green is one part of the puzzle but as I said, most countries are still on 1950s and 1960s builds, majority of the UK base is still on the changes that happened when the system was changed in the mid 1970s, etc. Just generating energy isn't enough, we need ways to store this energy for later use, we need to be building a network grid that can handle fluctuation of usage, we need a way to encourage people already with solar panels and other green measures to stay on the grid and have a way for energy to be fed back in and repurposed properly.
But no one wants to give up the profit for that.