What Spain’s blackout says about the grid
- On April 28, 2025, a blackout disrupted electricity supply across Spain, Portugal, and parts of France, impacting the Iberian Peninsula.
- Wood Mackenzie identified high renewable penetration, reduced conventional power capacity, and limited interconnections with France as key vulnerabilities behind the blackout.
- During the same week, France, Italy, and Germany set new records for daily solar output, which contributed to lower electricity prices across several European markets.
- The Spanish market hit a historical minimum hourly price of-€10.00/MWh on May 1, while the estimated economic losses range from €2.25 billion to €4.5 billion.
- Experts urge urgent grid modernization and faster activation of flexible demand to enhance stability and reduce risks of similar blackouts in the future.
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Spain's blackout: supply fell, not demand
Last April 28, an electrical malfunction apparently occurred in the south of France – technical failure or sabotage product? – left Spain and Portugal without light. The next day, in the newspapers, a graph appeared on whose horizontal axis the time is measured, and in the vertical the amount of energy produced and consumed in each instant (both quantities are the same, because the electrical fluid is a service). The curve showed a formidable dr…
Resist in the Royal Cañada, home of the eternal blackout: “When the rest of them lost their light, they sought me out. I knew what to do.”
They have been without light for five years and returned to the spotlights when 55 million people put themselves on their skin. More than a week after the energy zero that almost all of Spain and part of Europe lived, the problems on the livestock road over which a core of sub-housing was erected have not changedLa Cañada Real, four years after the blackout: European condemnation of Spain but without light in sight The eternal blackout. Four yea…
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