This is misleading. We could install a lot more renewables and limit their penetration to 80% and avoid the hard problems for quite a while while also reducing

This is misleading. We could install a lot more renewables and limit their penetration to 80% and avoid the hard problems for quite a while while also reducing CO2 output massively. Ireland has had such penetration Limits for a long time and is gradually relaxing them. The UK is also more difficult, being a smaller grid. Several national grids in the EU are operating at higher levels for significant hours as they "use" the stability of their neighbors. We can gain experience with new tech gradually that way. The reason we're not building more renewables in the EU is _not_ dynamical instability. The reasons are mostly regulatory and political right now. Grid capacity extensions lagging behind due to nimbyism and onshore wind is stimied by strict location rules. Permits often take a long time, etc... Economic incentives are also misaligned due to the lack of nodal pricing. It's wrong to suggest nothing is being done. It's also wrong to suggest that we couldn't do more.