Reuters spins Spain blackout, claims: ‘Don’t blame renewables for Spain’s power outage’

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Reuters spins Spain blackout, claims: ‘Don’t blame renewables for Spain’s power outage’ – Instead, blames ‘management of renewables’ & urges to ‘invest heavily in battery capacity to store electricity’
By Marc Morano
May 1, 2025
11:41 am

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/dont-blame-renewables-spains-power-outage-bousso-2025-04-30/

LONDON, April 30 (Reuters) – While it may be tempting to blame the unprecedented power outage that hit the Iberian peninsula this week on the rapid growth of wind and solar power in Spain, reliance on renewables is not to blame. Rather, the issue appears to be the management of renewables in the modern grid.
The massive blackout on Monday – the biggest in Europe’s history – should be a stark warning to governments: investments in power storage and grid upgrades must go hand in hand with the expansion of renewables generation.
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Inverter-based wind and solar power, which generated just under 70% of Spain’s total electricity at the critical moment on Monday, does not involve physical rotation and therefore inertia could not compensate for the sudden loss of power.

https://www.climatedepot.com/2025/05/01/reuters-spins-spain-blackout-claims-dont-blame-renewables-for-spains-power-outage-instead-blame-management-of-renewables-urges-invest-heavily-in-battery-capacity-to-s/

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‘Spain celebrated the destruction of their nuclear plants. Now they’re seeing the result of this decision’
By Marc Morano
April 29, 2025
 
Bloomberg News: Spain’s Nuclear Shutdown Set to Test Renewables Success Story – Plans to shut down all nuclear power plants by 2035 remain unchanged even as other countries delay closures and plan to build more.

You think!? February 26, 2025: Spanish nuclear industry calls for rethink of phase-out policy – Companies representing the Spanish nuclear industry have signed a manifesto calling for the long-term operation of the country’s nuclear power plants. Under current plans, Spain’s power reactors are all scheduled to shut by 2035.

https://www.climatedepot.com/2025/04/29/spain-celebrated-the-destruction-of-their-nuclear-plants-now-theyre-seeing-the-result-of-this-decision/

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The Spanish Government Is Lying About The Blackouts
Spain’s grid operator blamed renewables for the blackout, defying the Prime Minister’s claims.
by Michael Shellenberger  May 01, 2025
 
Renewable energy had nothing to do with Spain’s catastrophic blackouts, its Prime Minister says, insisting instead that the real culprit was a rare technical failure unrelated to the country’s green energy transition. [emphasis, links added]


Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez went further and reiterated his government’s opposition to nuclear energy, which he called “far from being a solution.”

But, as I pointed out on Monday, the underlying cause of the blackout was the lack of “inertia,” the physical buffer provided by traditional power plants that use heavy spinning machinery to stabilize the grid during sudden fluctuations.

Our electrical systems are based on power plants that rotate massive metal shafts at thousands of revolutions per minute, creating electricity while also providing momentum.

https://climatechangedispatch.com/the-spanish-government-is-lying-about-the-blackouts/