Solar and wind are intermittent. Grid scale energy storage is not even a thing yet.
Winters here have more sunshine than UK summers.
So, France fired up the gas.
5x cheaper electricity, on the other hand, makes power-to-gas economic, which can smooth out seasonal variations in a carbon neutral way.
Last I checked it seemed like something pushed by gas companies since it upholds gas infrastructure and most of the intermittence is currently supported by gas.
There's just zero economic incentive while polluting gas is dirt cheap and maxxed out solar and wind rarely even covers 100% of current electricity demand.
>There's just zero economic incentive while polluting gas is dirt cheap and maxxed out solar and wind rarely even covers 100% of current electricity demand.
It requires that we go beyond that 100% and as we do the incentives for it drop and the economic case for polluting gas goes up.