The Netherlands wants to push towards electrification - probably to reduce dependency on Russian gas - but the power grid cannot handle it, and it'll take years and billions to increase its capacity.

I mean electric boilers, heating panels, ranges and car chargers will easily increase peak loads by 15-25 kilowatts per house, that's 2-4x as much as they currently pull. Do that times hundreds of thousands of houses and you see the issue.

What you are right about is that both consumer and production endpoints transitions must be synchronized. But they should still happen very fast.

The right conclusion is that now they need to buff up the power grid extremely quickly TOO (it needs not take such a long time, some choices like solar or wind are quite quick to install).

Both the consumer endpoints and production endpoints have to change, of course.

As for the billions required for the transition, since when absolute figures make for good decisions? What is required is a comparison with alternatives. And one sure thing is that the cost of a failed transition, of a climate catastrophe, or indirect consequences like wars, are tremendously more expensive.

That’s fine for a long ye strategy. But asking people who are fitted for gas to go electric?

Politicians tend to make delusional promises which can never happen. Something like this is a long term thing it’s not… stop using gas now!

I think that's the right time to ask people to make the change, on the contrary, as it's the middle of the gas crisis (through geopolitical reasons).

Governments are trying hard to artificially keep the prices low, but the reality is that the market really really wants people to give up on fossil fuels.