While all of this sounds true, none of the EU states has a health minister of the caliber of RFK... At least that I heard about.
Nor who has enacted policies as stupid as he has.
So this data might not remain true very long...
I wrote my original acidic comment in the hope to shake some sense in the US and make them realize how nonsensical these policies are, I'm European and well aware we have our own crackpots, I have some familial relationships with a few of them...
Yes, I only listed means to store or produce energy because upgrading powerlines won't fix power fluctuations : that is due to imbalances between production and consumption, no amount of upgraded to transmission capacity is likely to help.
Load management might help, however. But it's typically hard to get people to consume more when needed and power shedding is expensive on the electrical operator... Especially since those oscillations were unexpected. Also those things already exist in many European countries.
France already has bidirectional power lines to trade electricity with Spain.
They were used to rapidly restore power in northern Spain after the outage and that interconnection actually caused a very short blackout in southwestern France.
The infrastructure France thankfully refused to allow is fossil gas lines, saving Europe decades of gas usage to justify the investment.
While that is indeed not the most objective source, they are actually correct. Even if their stability argument didn't hold water (it does), they should keep the nuclear plants active and upgrade transmission lines to export to Germany through France and displace coal plants in Germany's electricity market... And literally save on radioactive waste which coal plants produce tons of.
It happened in this very post, actually. Serves them right for French bashing.
The rest of the time, I'd agree with you, I've never done this joke nor condone it.