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Spain’s Blackout Story Is Disintegrating

In late April 2025, a widespread power outage affected almost the entire Iberian Peninsula, leading to major disruptions in critical services and infrastructure throughout Spain and Portugal.
The blackout resulted from a rapid cascading grid failure triggered by frequency dropping below 50 hertz amid insufficient grid inertia and backup capacity.
Spain’s increased reliance on intermittent solar and wind power, combined with aging nuclear reactors averaging 47 years old, strained grid stability.
Following the outage, Spain boosted combined-cycle gas turbine output by 37%, with about 2 gigawatts of additional gas-fired capacity added daily to stabilize the grid.
The event highlighted the need for improved grid inertia and backup technologies to handle renewables’ variability, implying strategic reconsideration of Spain’s energy mix.

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The Bosses of Iberdrola and Endesa Demand “Transparency and a Rigorous Technical Explanation About the Blackout”

aelēc asks REE to “compare the technical data of the incident with system agents and the scientific community” and insists that before the peninsular zero “voltage problems were detected”

4 hours ago·Spain

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Apagno. Cases of an Exceptional Event Continue Open One Month Later

The April 28 issue will be investigated as the final report for 2026. The court had its origin in Spain, after a sudden failure in the solar generation, and affected the entire Iberian electrical system.

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Spain Boosts Natural Gas Capacity After Renewable Energy's Failure Led to Historic Blackout

Meanwhile, the Iron Law of Electricity prevailed in Portugal's recent election, as those who enjoy civilized living went to the polls and picked a "far-right" candidate.

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Spain's Emergencies Shield: It's Saved Us More Times Than We Imagine

Spain has a shield against emergencies that has saved the country on more than one occasion. One of the most striking happened on April 28, 2025, the day Spain went from white to black in a matter of seconds. And with it followed Portugal, Andorra and certain areas of the south of France. The unprecedented electric zero, on the peninsula, strongly impacted on telecommunications and transport. More than 50 million people realized that their plans…

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Trump Team Attributes Blackout in Spain to Problems in "Two Solar Plants"

The US economist Diana Furchtgott-Roth, considered the energy guru of the president of this country, Donald Trump has attributed this week in Madrid the blackout of April 28 in Spain to the problems with "two solar plants". Thus, Furchtgott-Roth intervened this Friday in the Senate in the Parliamentary Forum of Intelligence and Security, which presides Robert Pittenger. The days counted with the participation of the main experts at European and …

2 days ago·Madrid, Spain

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