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Mared Gwyn Jones

Fact check: Could an ‘experiment’ with renewables have triggered the Iberian Peninsula blackout?

An article published last week in British newspaper The Telegraph alleges that the massive electricity outage that left the Iberian Peninsula in darkness on 28 April was triggered by a Spanish government “experiment” with renewable energies.

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, The Telegraph’s World Economy Editor, wrote that according to “sources in Brussels”, Spanish authorities were “probing how far they could push reliance on renewables” in preparation for Spain’s phase-out of nuclear reactors.

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