When you have major failures like this, it's rarely the engineering that's the problem, it's the project management. And that problem is compounded when the driving force behind the project is politics rather than need.
Ask any engineer who's had to deliver bad news to their managers on a failing project.
I’m sure you’re right. No engineer, after all, would even propose switchng to wind power from a consistent energy source. But of course that decision was not made on engineering criteria, it was for political and ideological reasons.