US EditionFinal Report: Renewables Not Cause of Spain’s Blackout
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Final Report: Renewables Not Cause of Spain’s Blackout
Financial Times: Report into last year’s catastrophic outage says the problem did not lie with solar and wind power ENTSO-E, a group of grid operators, said the “whole of Europe” needed to modernise parts of its power system to avoid a blackout similar to the one that struck Spain and Portugal. The European grid operators … Continue reading "Final Report: Renewables Not Cause of Spain’s Blackout"
Final Report released ‘Grid Incident in Spain and Portugal on 28 April 2025’
Approximately 11 months after the blackout on the Iberian Peninsula, on Friday 20th March 2026 the organisation ENTSO-E has released this Final Report into the ‘Grid Incident in Spain and Portugal on 28 April 2025’: The post Final Report released ‘Grid Incident in Spain and Portugal on 28 April 2025’ appeared first on WattClarity.
The large blackout that affected Spain and Portugal on 28 April 2025 was not the result of an isolated error or a single wrong decision, according to the final report prepared by the European consortium ENTSO-E (European Network of Electricity Transport Network Managers), whose experts describe the energy incident as the "most severe and unprecedented blackout in Europe over the past 20 years".
Associations of the renewable sector - SolarPower Europe, the Spanish Solar Photovoltaic Association (UNEF), the Portuguese Association of Renewable Energies (APREN), the Global Solar Council (GSC) and the Global Renewables Alliance (GRA) - today highlighted that the final report published by ENTSO-E on the blackout of April 28, 2025 in the Iberian peninsula confirms that the main root causes of the incident were linked to inadequate control of …
The renewable associations SolarPower Europe, the Spanish Photovoltaic Energy Union (UNEF), the Portuguese association of renewables (APREN), the Global Solar Council (GSC) and the Global Renewables Alliance (GRA) have stressed that the report of the panel of European experts of Entso-e on the blackout of April 28, 2025 "provides greater clarity after months of speculation and unhelpful rumors and highlights the need to avoid the hasty allocatio…
Entso-e's report details voltage control failures, protections and oscillations that led to the 2025 electrical collapse and spreads faults between the system operator, companies and regulators The CNMC warns that the massive blackout of
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