Spanish government blames everything and anything for power outages except the real culprit
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62d8k8edgxoBy Paul Homewood.
That's fine! Nothing to worry about.
It has nothing to do with the Spanish government's obsession with renewable energy! Blame it on bureaucrats and capitalism.
Except, of course, that solar energy was the biggest culprit in the power outages, a fact that even the cover-up report couldn't hide.
The blackout was triggered by a sudden loss of 2.2GW of electricity at the Granada substation in southern Spain. The report doesn’t appear to go into the cause of this, which you may have thought was crucial! But it is thought that one or two solar farms stopped supplying due to negative prices – this was the result of too much solar power for too little demand, which is exactly how the market is supposed to work; negative prices lead to less production, which balances out the system.
But solar power now accounts for such a large share of Spain's electricity (around 60% at the time of the blackout) that the negative pricing system itself poses a threat to the grid.
https://www.climategate.nl/2025/06/spaanse-regering-geeft-alles-en-nog-wat-de-schuld-van-stroomuitval-behalve-de-echte-schuldige/
