Spain’s PM Pedro Sánchez says blackout will not change his renewables bet

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez once again asked for "time" to establish such massive causes of current that affected the Iberic Peninsula on 28 April. He claims that there is no "no evidence" that criminalizes the sources of renewable energy and promises an informed investigation after the opposition called for resignation and criticised the situation, AFP, quoted by Agerpres.

Spain’s PM Pedro Sánchez says blackout will not change his renewables bet

Opposition parties have questioned government’s commitment to wind and solar power

The president insists that there is no evidence of the causes and urges the large electricity companies to make a joint proposal to extend the power plants as long as they are not costed with public money and are safe for the citizens: "Renewables are the future"

Spain’s Blackout Shows the Regime Can’t Be Bothered With Affordable, Reliable Power - LewRockwell

There’s a lot of conflicting information about the immediate cause of the recent mega-blackouts in Spain and Portugal. The governments in those countries claim the causes are “still unclear” after the largest blackouts in history. Given the rather spotty record of truth-telling by national governments, I suspect the causes of the blackouts are clear to those who are in a position to know. What we on the outside do know, though, is that Spain and…

I don't understand the debate or the timing of it, to be honest. Why do we have to choose between renewable energy and nuclear energy? Can't the latter help us sustain the system in a completely electrified Basque Country, a Europe, and a world, or one on the way to it? Hopefully, as Pedro Sánchez claims, the day will soon come when green energy is the only option, but that simply isn't true today. How will those who eagerly retweet or send via …

There are still no reasons, there is not even an approximation. Pedro Sánchez did not want to advance any thesis because he lacks data, he lacks certainties about what could lead the Peninsula to a total black on April 28. And it will still take "time" to have them. But, in the absence of answers and an official account of what happened, the president took to the Congressional rostrum his ideological battle, the closed defense of his energy mode…