Lomborg: ‘Spain’s recent blackout wasn’t just a fluke—it was a physics lesson’ – ‘Wind & solar is making grids more fragile & power bills more expensive’
By Admin
June 5, 2025
WSJ: The Physics Behind the Spanish Blackout: Madrid knew solar and wind power were unreliable but pressed ahead anyway.
By Bjorn Lomborg
When a grid failure plunged 55 million people in Spain and Portugal into darkness at the end of April, it should have been a wake-up call on green energy. Climate activists promised that solar and wind power were the future of cheap, dependable electricity. The massive half-day blackout shows otherwise. The nature of solar and wind generation makes grids that rely on them more prone to collapse—an issue that’s particularly expensive to ameliorate.
As I wrote in these pages in January, the data have long shown that environmentalists’ vision of cheap, reliable solar and wind energy was a mirage. The International Energy Agency’s latest cost data continue to underscore this: Consumers and businesses in countries with almost no solar and wind on average paid 11 U.S. cents for a kilowatt hour of electricity in 2023, but costs rise by more than 4 cents for every 10% increase in the portion of a nation’s power generation that’s covered by solar and wind. Green countries such as Germany pay 34 cents, more than 2.5 times the average U.S. rate and nearly four times China’s.
https://www.climatedepot.com/2025/06/05/lomborg-spains-recent-blackout-wasnt-just-a-fluke-it-was-a-physics-lesson-wind-solar-is-making-grids-more-fragile-power-bills-more-expensive/
