What Spain’s blackout says about the grid

Wind and Solar are the Worst Generating Technologies, Heavily Subsidized by Biden’s Climate Bill

Spain and Portugal’s blackout should be a warning to U.S. lawmakers, who decide the future of the massive renewable tax credits in President Biden’s climate bill, the Democrat-passed Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). Spain, whose generation mix on April 28 was 59% solar and 12% wind, with only 22% coming from nuclear and gas, went into a major blackout as 15 gigawatts of solar power went off-line because there was not enough inertia in the system f…

European Blackout Update (yes, it was solar)

“Could the reliability of the Iberian Peninsula grid be ensured by introducing new technical solutions? Technically, yes—but economically, the feasibility is more challenging.” ( – J.K. Nøland, below)

Comments for: In the aftermath of the Spanish blackout

One subject that renewable advocates are averse to discussing is asset utilization and I can understand why. Capacity factors, which are a measure of asset utilization, plummet when renewables enter the picture. As a typical example look at Red El&ea...

Spain’s grid collapsed in 5 seconds. The U.S. could be next.

Spain’s blackout wasn’t an accident. It was the result of policies that subsidized volatility, dismantled reliability, and ignored inertia.

CHRONIQUE. The black-out in Spain and the polemic on water management in the United Kingdom are not part of privatisation policy but rather of the public regulatory system.

A new detailed report now shows who is considered to be the cause of the power failure in Spain and parts of Portugal, and the whole thing took place in the south of Spain.