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5 days agoAfter Spain's blackout, critics blamed renewable energy. It's part of a bigger attack
A voltage surge, not excess solar or wind generation, caused the massive outage across Spain, Portugal, and parts of France.
The unprecedented blackout that brought the Iberian peninsula to a standstill was caused by surging voltages triggering a chain reaction of disconnections within Spain's power network.