Spain Tacitly Accepts Blackout Was Caused by Green Madness
23rd July 2025
Spanish officials have spent the months since one of the worst power outages in European history publicly blaming everything but their overreliance on renewables. But their actions behind the scenes show they know this to have been the true cause.
Most tellingly, the nation’s gas consumption for electricity generation soared by an impressive 41% in the first half of the year. Bloomberg reports that this heavier-than-normal reliance on fossil fuel was intended to “stabilise the country’s power network in the wake of a nationwide blackout in April.”
Spanish energy boss Arturo Gonzalo is also quoted in the paper saying “gas played a decisive role in restoring normality in Spain after the April 28th blackout, ensuring supply to all consumers,” adding that combined-cycle plants went from supplying about 5% of the electricity produced in Spain to 49% “during hours that were critical for the country.”