At roughly midday on Monday, April 28, the lights went out in Spain. The grid blackout, which extended into parts of Portugal ...

Ask families in Germany and the UK what happens when more and more supposedly “cheap” solar and wind power is added to the ...

The cause of last week's massive power outage in Spain and Portugal remains unclear but it has shone a spotlight on solar and ...

On April 22, Spain’s power company boastfully announced that six days earlier, the electric grid ran entirely on renewable energy, including wind ... off its connection to Spain’s unstable system.

Spain’s electricity grid collapsed shortly after 12.30pm local time, taking Portugal’s with it. Officials and engineers are ...

Neighboring countries are also chipping in, with French grid operator RTE supplying 700 megawatts of electricity to Spain ...

Both Spain and Portugal’s power grid operators have ruled out a ... in fossil fuel generators or hydropower – which solar panels and wind turbines do not have. In a blackout, you need to ...

With a huge blackout in the Iberian Peninsula yesterday that crippled transport networks, shut cash machines and switched off ...