It’s becoming increasingly common around weekends in France — which gets about two-thirds of its electricity from its atomic fleet

So they occasionally have to take a nuclear plant offline on a sunny and windy day, because we still don’t have the storage for solar to be an effective baseline.

Well if that’s actually the functioning case, they are investing their effort in the wrong place. They don’t need energy production, they need storage.

As far as your comment amount solar, we do have solutions that exist. Energy companies just need to actually get off their asses and work them into the grids.