It's time to come to grips with reality. 100% renewable grids are unreliable and outright dangerous for populations leveraging them.
The abundant energy future is here if we're willing to take it. We just need to ignore the climate hysterics.
https://www.tftc.io/its-time-to-get-serious-about-baseload-energy/
I don't think the Iberian peninsula issues were due to renewable energy, but you're right overall.
The only applications for solar should be small scale (eg off grid homesteads- on roofs or other structures)
The larger power entities should be looking at thorium reactors like the Chinese have
From the bits and pieces I've read it almost seems like there was too much power and then something went out of wack. Most people were thinking that a sudden drop of renewable power would be the problem... Like you stated this doesn't seem to be the case here.
Did you see anything about openings in the ionosphere that allowed solar flares to induce currents in the magnetosphere that can impact the grid? I think they call them geomagnetically induced currents
I would have to defer to the Suspicious Observer YouTube guy. I haven't had a chance to watch to any of his recent videos to see what he says about it
China may be looking at thorium, not they've also added more renewable capacity (mostly solar/wind) in 2024 than the US has in is entire history. China is well underway to a mostly renewable grid and even globally, renewable capacity is still growing exponentially
Thorium reactors on the other hand hardly exist yet, let alone at scale
