I don't know what your exact situation is, but for some people you can consider other "battery" options. Almost everyone needs heat in some way (hot water, space heating) so if you're making a lot of excess electricity you could get an electric resistance hot water heater. It can be used to pre-heat your hot water before entering your main hot water tank, or be used to loop through your residence for hydronic heating.

This wouldn't be for everyone but there are other options to chemical batteries depending on whats easy for you to do.

It didn't backfire, the easy sensible solutions were ignored for 15 years until a problem was caused.

And they get away with it because people are so willing to believe ridiculous lies like this. Their newspapers have told them "this is a problem" nearly daily for years. Any problem can immediately be blamed on renewables with no need to wait for expert input. A triumph of propaganda.

Genuine question, because I am pretty ignorant to European laws; if you're producing so much excess that selling it back would actually cost you money, wouldn't this be a pretty good case for something akin to those Tesla Powerwalls?

Not necessarily that brand specifically but something similar?

Why are you giving it "back"? I'd stop immediately if I had to pay. Can you not set your inverter to "zero-export"?

Netherlands? The problem here is that they incentivised putting solar on peoples roofs, but forgot to increase the capacity of our grid for this completely predictible change.

Thank Mark Rutte and his short sightedness.

Meanwhile the motorways are untolled and public transit fares rise.

It really sucks because there is a technical solution to this (load dumping) but I don't think most non-battery controllers support that