The reality is closer to: "Netherlands' power grid is struggling to manage the transition away from Russian gas". My daughter lives there. The sudden switch c

The reality is closer to: "Netherlands' power grid is struggling to manage the transition away from Russian gas". My daughter lives there. The sudden switch cause a lot of hand wringing at the time. It didn't matter how they managed it, that transition was always going to strain the grid in new ways. As to why they were using Russian gas: they did use domestic gas as the article says. They stopped that when it became apparent it caused earthquakes, which are a significant problem when a good chunk of your country is below sea level. Odd they neglected to mention that in the article. We've had the same should be bullshit thrown around in Australia politics. The claim: "South Australia change to renewables caused state wide blackouts". The reality: "Storm blows down transmission power line pylons, at the same time as the backup line was down for maintenance. Then the privately owned standby gas companies made things worse by refusing to power up until the price rose to astronomical levels." The fluctuations caused by the high voltage lines hitting the ground did cause some wind turbines to trip out prematurely, and they got hit over the knuckles for setting the trip out voltage too conservatively. But those fines weren't close to what the gas generators received for their behaviour. Meanwhile, the biggest regular disturbances to the grid are still caused by the coal fired generator turbines tripping out. I have no idea why it happens as regularly as it does, especially in the summer months. I presume the wind turbines also trip out on occasion, but as they are smaller they don't cause 1 gigawatt of generation to disappear in an instant. Until batteries arrived on the scene that gigawatt disappearing caused blackouts for a few minutes while the gas turbines fired up. Now no one notices. The article doesn't mention that of course, because batteries are part of the new wave of generation they are campaigning against.