[RedDevil]

Germany also decided to close all nuclear installations. And they are right about cutting back subsidies; they were quite high, and with the price of solar panels gradually dropping they don't need to be.

The biggest problem in Germany is the law that solar and wind power must be used no matter what. A storm can put the grid under stress because the wind farms in the north then outproduce local need big time.
It would be way more sensible and economical to either shut some of them off or increase the blade angle on all of them to slow them down; that would also reduce wear and maintenance needs.

The same could be done with solar; simply hook them up with a device controlled by the grid owner that reduces or prevents delivery to the grid when it cannot use it. In that way the grid owner could create a buffer capacity to quickly adapt to changing production or demand.
In an ideal world... Ah well.