Netherlands' renewables drive putting pressure on its power grid

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"Nowadays we're switching to renewables, and that means there's a lot of power being injected into the grid in the outskirts of the network where there are only relatively small power lines."

And these small power lines are struggling to cope with all the electricity coming in from wind turbines and solar panels scattered around the country.

Damien Ernst, professor of electrical engineering at Belgium's Liege University, is one of Europe's leading experts on electricity grids. He says it is an expensive problem for the Netherlands to solve.

Prof Ernst adds that it is a Europe-wide issue. "We have an enormous amount of solar panels being installed, and they are installed at a rate that is much, much too high for the grid to be able to accommodate."

 Source: Wikipedia.  (Dark-Green) Netherlands.  (Light-Green) The rest of the European Union (EU)