The thing we need is for people to stop countering the change out of their short-term interest in lining their own pockets.
Not until we have an order-of-magnitude breakthrough in battery tech or some new form of storage
Germany raised it's electricity price almost 3 times since it started it's riddiculous renewable energy bs and they still are only ~25% renewables (And they offshored their heavy, energy intensive industry that just packed up and moved to China, to happily pollute even more than before)
There you have it. This is a viable alternative that's safe, and green.
Germany did exactly the wrong thing IMO. They should've expanded their nuclear capacity instead of shutting off perfectly good plans and starting to pollute the world (proxying through China, as you say).