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An abrupt and widespread blackout, one of Europe's worst in living memory, affected the entire Iberian Peninsula on April 28.
At roughly midday on Monday, April 28, the lights went out in Spain. The grid blackout, which extended into parts of Portugal ...
Spain has not reached any conclusions about what caused a major power outage on April 28, contrary to online claims saying ...
The massive power outage that hit the Iberian peninsula last month has reignited a debate in Spain over the country’s plan to ...
Experts have previously warned that Europe’s increasing reliance on renewable energy — which fluctuates with the weather — ...
Spain’s nationwide blackout this week has put a spotlight on potential vulnerabilities in its system that may offer warnings ...
The blackout in Spain was not caused by a cyberattack but by the worst possible attack—that of politicians against their own ...
Spain's grid operator denied on Wednesday that dependence on solar power was to blame for the country's worst ever blackout, ...
This week’s blackout in Spain and Portugal confronted authorities with an unprecedented event: the first mass electrical ...
Spain’s blackout highlights growing grid risks as renewable energy expands and storage infrastructure lags behind.
These weaknesses are unmistakably rooted in a reckless bet on solar and wind from the early 2000s, to the gradual exclusion of nuclear power. Spain’s blackout came at a time when its grid has ...
Solar and wind provided roughly 70% of ... In the days following the blackout, Google searches in Spain for “nuclear” spiked, according to data from Google Trends. Spain’s nuclear lobby ...