Spain’s Govt Blames Everything But The Real Culprit For Blackouts
June 21, 2025
By Paul Homewood
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62d8k8edgxoSo that’s alright then! Nothing to worry about.
Nothing to do with the Spanish government’s obsession with renewable energy! Just blame it all on bureaucrats and capitalism.
Except, of course, it was solar power which was at front and centre of the blackouts, a fact which even the whitewash report could not disguise.
The catalyst for the blackout was a sudden loss of 2.2GW of electricity at Granada substation in southern Spain. The report does not appear to address why this happened, which you might have thought was crucial! But it is believed that one or two solar farms stopped transmitting because of negative prices – these resulted from too much solar generation for too little demand, and this is exactly how the market is supposed to work; negative prices lead to less generation, thus bringing the system into balance.
However solar power now makes up such a large part of Spain’s electricity (about 60% at the time of the blackouts), that the very system of negative pricing is a threat in itself to the grid.
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