The Spanish Government Is Lying About The Blackouts

Renewable energy had nothing to do with Spain s catastrophic blackouts, its Prime Minister says, insisting instead that the real culprit was a rare technical failure unrelated to the country s green energy transition. Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez went further and reiterated his government s opposition to nuclear energy, which he called far from being a solution.

But, as I pointed out on Monday, the underlying cause of the blackout was the lack of inertia, the physical buffer provided by traditional power plants that use heavy spinning machinery to stabilize the grid during sudden fluctuations. Our electrical systems are based on power plants that rotate massive metal shafts at thousands of revolutions per minute, creating electricity while also providing momentum. That rotational mass acts like a shock absorber, automatically resisting sharp swings in supply and demand. When a fault or sudden drop hits the system, that inertia buys precious seconds for control systems to respond and for operators to isolate the problem. In contrast, solar panels and most modern wind turbines rely on inverters, which lack physical mass and can t cushion these shocks.

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Michael Shellenberger.

Renewables had nothing to do with it, Covid came from pangolins, and vaccines never make you sick. Anything else?