Goldilocks was evidently the brains behind the ‘engineering’ of wind and solar power, which only operate when conditions are “just right”.
When the weather turns nasty, giant industrial wind turbines simply turn off. When there’s no wind, they produce nothing; when winds hit gale force, they produce nothing.
Solar panels aren’t any more resilient.
A few fluffy clouds give them grief.
Hailstones make short work of them; a blanket of snow and ice cuts their production to nothing, even when the sun is shining.
A hurricane or tornado soon tears them to worthless shreds.
Shredded panels after a storm in Puerto Rico.
But, counterintuitively, it’s when solar energy is at its zenith that the output they occasionally produce starts to drop off, very dramatically.
In Australia, summertime temperatures are routinely 35° C and above with heatwaves of 40° C and above, that can last for a week at a stretch…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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