Blackout in Spain and Portugal.

MADRID, April 29 (Reuters) - Electricity had been restored to most of Spain and Portugal early on Tuesday after huge nationwide blackouts, although authorities were still trying to find out what caused the sudden outage.

In Spain, schools and offices reopened, public transport restarted after long delays, traffic gridlock eased and many hospitals had recovered power while others continued to operate on generators.
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The authorities are now being pressed for an explanation of what caused one of the biggest power outages ever seen in Europe.

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Monday night the country had suffered a precipitous loss of 15GW of electricity generation in five seconds at around midday, equivalent to 60% of national demand.
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Spain is one of Europe's biggest producers of renewable energy, but Monday's shutdown has already sparked debate about whether the volatility of supply from solar or wind has made its power systems more vulnerable to such an outage.

Spain, Portugal hunt for cause of power outage as electricity returns | Reuters

I have seen in Twitter/X some people already blaming Rusia for the collapse of the grid and labeling a test attack. But then others started to point out that since earlier in the month, Spain had gone “Greta Thunberg” with its power generation from wind and solar trying to prove a country could be run on “renewable” energy alone.

It seems the experiment failed.

I do not expect a change of heart from the authorities and a sensible return or at least a conscientious backup network of non-green generation plants, but an attempt to reduce consumption by legal mandate. I believe that mandatory cessation of electrical use during certain times of the day will be forthcoming, and the violators subjected to heavy fines and jail time for trying to keep drinks cool, foodstuff cold and themselves comfortable.

But we must keep the Green Power alive!