The Physics Behind the Spanish Blackout

The Physics Behind the Spanish Blackout

Madrid knew solar and wind power were unreliable but pressed ahead anyway.

The Spanish blackout is a cautionary tale against the EU’s green deal - Brussels Report

By Vanessa Combattelli A total blackout. In Spain. In the land of sunshine and green energy. Initial reports suggested that Russian hackers were responsible. But it didn’t take long to realise that the problem wasn’t coming from Moscow: it was coming from the sun itself. A technical detail, one of those that few bother to explain to the public, but one that closely concerns the direction Europe has chosen to take with its energy strategy. The in…