What Caused The Blackout On The Iberian Peninsular? It's Complicated. - CleanTechnica

What Caused The Blackout On The Iberian Peninsular? It's Complicated. - CleanTechnica

The blackout in Spain and Portugal last week was Preventable, with careful planning and knowledgeable policies.

Iberian blackout exposes financial oligarchy’s looting of European energy infrastructure

Spain's electricityy sector is dominated by a handful of major conglomerates that refuse critical security investment and extract tens of billions of euros in profits from the grid.

Iberian Blackout: Shutdown Private Profit to Promote an Ecosocialist Transition

The Anticapitalistas, a socialist project in the Spanish state, issued the following statement in the wake of the giant blackout throughout the Iberian peninsula last week. I think this is a useful guide to outlining the ecosocialist response to the energy crisis. Here is a machine translation, slightly edited for clarity. — Richard Fidler Last Monday [April 28], the entire Iberian Peninsula lost power overnight. The causes that led to the fluct…

Even if the recent events on the Iberian Peninsula were not the result of hostile activity, they showed a potential enemy how it is possible to paralyze an entire country by implanting viruses into a few power sub-grids.

There has been a lot of talk in recent days about the possible causes of the blackout that occurred on the Iberian Peninsula last week, and a conflict of interest related to energy sources is emerging. Well, EH Bildu spokesperson Pello Otxandiano has called for "prudence" in the Basque Parliament. As he stated in an interview with the ETB1 channel, the first thing to do is to find out what technical problems caused the major blackout on April 28…

Friends of the Earth, Ecologists in Action and Greenpeace have denounced that both the potabilization systems and the pumping stations of Vigo "do not have emergency energy support to guarantee the supply of energy in the event of a blackout."This lack of generators caused urban waste water to be poured into the Vigo estuary for at least ten hours without any purification, which caused a polluting event that could have been avoided.