Days before the media celebrated Spain’s first full weekday powered entirely by renewables in late April, the unthinkable happened: the grid collapsed, triggering a nationwide blackout. The incident served as a stark reminder to other Western nations, including ‘America First’ folks, that overreliance on intermittent sources, such as solar and wind, creates not just grid fragility but also a national security risk.
A new report from El País, citing data from the Association of Electric Power Companies (Aelec), based on data published by Iberdrola, Endesa, Naturgy, and EDP, warned that Spain’s peninsular power grid is severely overstretched and unable to absorb additional demand. In fact, most of the country’s electricity hubs have already reached their limits.
Aelec data showed that 83.4% of all these power nodes in the Spanish grid are at full capacity and can no longer accept new connections.
Most regions in Spain have limited spare grid capacity to accommodate new energy demand without compromising the system’s stability.
The problem of grid capacity shortages arises as Europe’s overreliance on intermittent sources, such as wind and solar, has left the continent’s energy grid vulnerable.
Brussels has had a weird obsession with all things “green” energy, which is not as green as it’s made out to be, sparking the blackout in Spain in late April. Also, energy prices have soared, and power bills have skyrocketed as liberal elites on the continent sacrificed grid reliability to combat some alleged climate crisis.
