US EditionThe Administrative Funnel Delays Technologies that Seek to Eliminate the Hypothesis that Links the Blackout to Photovoltaic Energy
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It has been a month since the blackout without knowing its causes and also years since the European Commission in Brussels and the National Commission for Markets and Competition (CNMC) in Spain prepare regulations for two technologies that would contribute to giving more capacity to photovoltaic energy to stabilize the frequency of the electricity grid, which on April 28 was altered to provoke the first 'electrical zero' in history throughout t…
This article will be updated as relevant developments occur. Last updated: June 2, 2025. 📲 Click here and follow the Maldita.es WhatsApp channel so you don't get fooled! What is being attributed to the Government regarding the April 28 blackout? Several articles claim that the Government has changed the daily electricity mix to favor renewable energy over other technologies. This, according to the articles, is linked to the April 28 blackout.
Solar energy has been razed in the Spanish electric mix during the past May with more than 25% of the generation, but it has done so under the most absolute of the ruins, with no income except exceptions. The generation mix of this month of May, the first after the blackout, has thrown a change of leader, the wind has passed the relay to the solar photovoltaic. According to the data offered by Red Eléctrica, the solar photovoltaic has produced a…
In an interview with ESdiario, Paloma Martín, deputy secretary of Sustainable Development for the People's Party (PP), accuses the government of concealing the causes of the April 28 blackout. She maintains that the electricity system failed due to a lack of backup and an "ideologized" energy model. She warns that security of supply has been sacrificed in favor of an "experiment" with renewables.
The darkness settled more than a month ago. Since the blackout, a certain gloom has barely begun to emerge over who was responsible. Cross accusations, intentional insinuations and exculpatory statements are what we have 34 days later. The open war between the Electricity Network and the Government against the energy companies has been raising the tone. No one wants to be the one indicated. The cost is too high, not only in reputation, but above…
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