Great response, thank you! Showing my ignorance of situations in Europe and how they differ from Australia. Thanks for the corrections around usage as well as

Great response, thank you! Showing my ignorance of situations in Europe and how they differ from Australia. Thanks for the corrections around usage as well as the spreadsheet full of data! 50 times for solar is quite a lot (~350GW installed rooftop or does it include solar parks?), not practical for solar alone, at least not in the next 20 years. I'm not sure about France, but in other parts of the world, most of the solar power generation has been added in the last 5 or so years I remain optimistic that installation rates will continue to grow, but your data has shown me that for locations with heavy heating requirements, aiming for 100% renewable anytime soon is just not practical. Thanks again for the spreadsheet, I work with solar forecasting (including for Europe!), we have only started modeling for storage and would be very interested where the hourly solar generation on the grid came from and other work you've done in this area. My email is [darren at solcast dot com dot au].