How odd: six days After celebrating ‘100% renewable power’, Spain blames “rare atmospheric phenomenon” for largest blackout in their history. LOL.
Six days ago, the media celebrated a significant milestone: Spain’s national grid operated entirely on renewable energy for the first time during a weekday.
At 12:35 pm today local time, the lights went out across Spain and Portugal, and parts of France.
As Michael Shellenberger writes at PUBLIC, this wasn’t just a Spanish blackout. It shook the entire European grid.
…none of this should have been a surprise. The underlying physics had been understood for years, and the specific vulnerabilities had been spelled out repeatedly in technical warnings that policymakers ignored.
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As countries replaced heavy, spinning plants with lightweight, inverter-based generation, the grid became faster, lighter, and far more sensitive to disruptions. That basic physical reality was spelled out in public warnings as far back as 2017.
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Although political leaders promised that renewable energy would provide stable, affordable power, in practice, Spain grew more reliant on the remaining nuclear and natural gas plants to sustain inertia — even as the government pushes them to close.
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Despite all these warnings, political and regulatory energy in Europe remained focused on accelerating renewable deployment, not upgrading the grid’s basic stability. In Spain, solar generation continued to climb rapidly through 2023 and early 2024.
Coal plants closed. Nuclear units retired.
On many spring days by 2025, Spain’s midday solar generation exceeded its total afternoon demand, leading to frequent negative electricity prices.
The system was being pushed to the limit.
And today, at 12:35 pm, it broke.
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Spain’s blackout wasn’t just a technical failure. It was a political and strategic failure.
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Unless Spain rapidly invests in synthetic inertia, maintains and expands its nuclear fleet, or adds some other new form of heavy rotating generation, the risk of future blackouts will only grow worse.

The small or medium-sized disturbances on the grid become very difficult to manage and can cascade into wider instability and outages when the grid is in a low inertia condition, as was the case Monday in Spain just before the massive ongoing blackout.
Of course, shitheads like Clayton Tucker and Bruce Haywood can’t be bothered to understand the actual physics behind all this. They just yammer retarded phrases like “the wind always blows!” and then “fix the damn grid” when it subsequently breaks. They vote for other retards like Ed Markey, Robert O’Rourke and Sandy Cortez who ALSO are low IQ and don’t understand physics or reality, but who are more than happy to waste trillions on unworkable pinwheel scams.

I hope the greentard Spaniards enjoy the next week without power or the beloved electric trains. I’m sure when the lights are out in all the big cities, the tens of thousands of North African scum they have let pour over their borders will TOTALLY behave themselves and refrain from raping and looting.
Morons.