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The Iberian Blackout Put EU Energy Security in the Spotlight

Summary by worldpoliticsreview.com
A widespread blackout across Spain, Portugal and southern France raises serious questions about the efficacy of the EU’s pooled energy policy.

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Solar power has grown dramatically in Spain in recent years, which is suspected to be the cause of the massive blackout that blacked out the country in April. Now the anti-nuclear government is having to reconsider closing nuclear power plants.

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On April 28, 2025, Spain was the day of truth. On that day, almost everyone realized that one can make beautiful speeches with ideology, shoot videos and print glossy brochures. But no functioning power grid with wind and solar power. At 12:33 the power grid collapsed in large parts of the country. The post "Liegt an Solar Energy": Spanish TV reveals internal conversations of technicians before Blackout first appeared on Tichy's insight.

On the same day of the power blackout in the Iberian Peninsula, April 28, 2025, an X user from Argentina shared the following content accompanied by an image of two escalators with people on them: “🔴 NOW | Blackout in Spain: Galicians [a term used in Argentina to refer to Spaniards] have been trapped on the escalators for over two hours.” The author then claims it is a “joke.” The escalators in the photo are in Medellín (Colombia), not Spain. A…

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worldpoliticsreview.com broke the news in on Friday, June 13, 2025.
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