Spain blackout shows need for gas in a greener world: Woodside CEO

Prices of peaked electricity and profits of parks at historical lows: for the business of renewables it is late at night. Especially in France and Spain, where profitability has gone from 43% to 7%. And blackouts have stretched out the country. Germany for now holds.The solar renewable energy no...

Spain Boosts Natural Gas Capacity After Renewable Energy’s Failur...

Now, in the aftermath of this blackout that could have been much worse, Spain has significantly increased its reliance on natural gas-fired power plants to stabilize its electricity grid. This strategic shift is the direct result of concerns about the grid’s ability to handle high levels of renewable energy, particularly solar and wind, which accounted for a substantial share of generation during the outage.

Spain’s crippling blackout shows need for gas in a greener world: Woodside CEO

Meg O’Neill says crippling blackouts that left millions without electricity across Europe show why energy security and affordability are just as important as reducing emissions.

At the end of April, after a large blackout, Spain and Portugal are almost completely without electricity. A village in northern Spain gets little of the power outage – refrigerators and lights work as usual for the 130 inhabitants. How can that be?

Staged Scarcity From Spain To Sri Lanka:  Electricity Blackouts, Price Rigging & The IMF - Colombo Telegraph

By Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake – Dr. Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake The Iberian Peninsula including Spain, Portugal, and parts of France faced mysterious electricity outages last month. Spain had an extended countywide Blackout–the worst electricity failure in any developed country in modern times. London’s Heathrow Airport, one of the world’s business airports also experienced a power failure and a total shut down over a 24-hour period causing…