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Spain’s grid denies renewable energy to blame for massive blackout

Pedestrian traffic lights did not work when a widespread power outage hit Spain and Portugal, in Madrid, Spain on April 28, 2025 [File: Anadolu]

Spain’s grid operator has denied that solar power was to blame for the country’s worst blackout, as Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez faces increasing pressure to explain what went wrong.

Red Electrica de Espana (REE) on Wednesday said the source of the outage had been narrowed down to two separate incidents of loss of generation in substations in southwestern Spain, but stressed that it was too early to draw conclusions, as it had yet to identify their exact location.

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