Spain Drain-Did Alternative Energy Cause a Blackout? -Robert Bryce
Robert Bryce is our guest for this episode, and we talk all things energy in 2025.
Spain's push for net-zero backfires with crippling power outage across 2 nations.
Government explanations fall short as experts point to complications related to the renewable energy transition.
One of the first claims about what happened there was a so-called "induced atmospheric vibration." That happens when there are rapid changes in the weather that alter the oscillations in the electric grid’s overhead lines, according to Professor Jianzhong Wu at the University of Cardiff focuses on Multi-Vector Energy Systems. He is also an electric grid expert, among other things.
However, Wu was not convinced that "vibration" caused the outage.
"I am not aware of extreme weather conditions in Spain today (my daughter is on a School trip in Spain, and she told me the weather was really nice there), so I am not sure whether this is the real cause," Wu wrote in an article for the Science Media Centre on the same day as the outage.
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