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This is absolutely false. There are currently discussions about net instability due to the missing North-South connection for renewable energy sources. I think

• _ph_ 7y ago
  This is NOT "absolutely false". There are no net instabilities. Yes, there are lacking north-south connections and they are being built. But they don't have to do with the net capacity as such. They have to do with the new requirement of distributing wind energy from the north to the south and solar energy northwards. This was previously not needed, as every country roughly generated enough energy for their needs and there was little far-distance transportation. And I don't understimate the amount of power needed for cars, it can be easily calculated, as the numbers of the cars are known as well as the average distance travelled per car. Do the multiplication and you get about 120 TWh of electricity needed per year. That is for converting any single car to electric. Which will take more than 20 years from now on. Compare that to the 600 TWh of production. This doesn't even calculate in all the electricity spent on fossile fuels, which would be saved.