According to the Telegraph the Iberian Peninsula’s catastrophic power outage on April 28th 2025 was most likely down to failures at solar farms.

REE, Spain’s national grid operator, said it had identified two incidents of power generation loss, probably from solar plants, in the country’s south-west.

These incidents caused instability in the electric system and led to a breakdown of its interconnection with France.

It has ruled out a cyber attack as the cause.

In a statement on Tuesday afternoon, Pedro Sanchez, the Spanish Prime Minister, said the blackout was not due to a lack of nuclear power, rejecting claims by far-Right party Vox which opposes Madrid’s planned nuclear phase-out.

“Those who link this incident to the lack of nuclear power are frankly lying or demonstrating their ignorance.”

Mr Sanchez announced that a commission has been set up and that “all the necessary measures will be taken to ensure that this does not happen again”.

The Guardian was still running with the idea that the weather was to blame first thing this morning but by later in the day had dropped the story entirely, though its Politics Live section did cover Tony Blair’s warning today that phasing out fossil fuel is doomed to failure:

Tony Blair has called for a “reset” of action on climate change, to the dismay of some green campaigners, suggesting the Government should focus less on renewables and more on technological solutions like carbon capture.

In remarks that have antagonised some in Labour and in industry, the former prime minister said people were “being asked to make financial sacrifices and changes in lifestyle when they know that their impact on global emissions is minimal”.

Blair, who was writing the forward to a new report from his thinktank, the Tony Blair Institute, echoed similar criticism of Net Zero made by the Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch. He wrote “any strategy based on either ‘phasing out’ fossil fuels in the short term or limiting consumption is a strategy doomed to fail.”

The former Labour leader, whose institute has been highly influential in Labour circles, said that the current climate debate was “riven with irrationality” and suggested Net Zero was losing public support.

Blair added: “Most political leaders are decent people who do want to do the right thing. … They would like to start taking some of the hysteria out of the climate debate but are reluctant to be the first to do so.”

Meanwhile, the BBC remained circumspect and stuck with running a story covering the disruption in detail.

The whole extraordinary incident impacted almost the whole Iberian Peninsula and even parts of France. But two factors are going to have to be under consideration:

1. Our dependence on electricity has increased dramatically, and that dependence is being ramped up as other power sources are being gradually eliminated.
2. The new sources of electricity are subject to uncontrollable variations in supply, and which cannot be easily synchronised with demand, with a disastrous susceptibility to causing whole grids to switch off.

If nothing else, the Iberian Peninsula fiasco has flagged up like nothing before just how vulnerable our society is, especially when massive changes to something as important as the power grid are forced through in a rush. The implications for Britain, where the present Government is desperate to make the whole nation totally reliant on renewable sources of electricity generation by 2030, are very serious indeed.

It’s also shown how very quickly a further blackout, especially one which cannot be solved almost immediately, could lead to disorder on the streets and potentially far worse. The political implications ought to be obvious, even to the most stupid and short-sighted politicians.

The Telegraph’s piece is worth reading in full.

Stop Press: Net Zero taxes are killing manufacturing, failing to tackle emissions and making Britain more reliant on foreign imports, Sir Jim Ratcliffe has warned. From the Telegraph:

The billionaire industrialist said costly taxes on carbon emissions were driving jobs offshore and simply shifting production to countries that cared less about the environment.

The Chief Executive of chemicals giant Ineos urged Ministers to rethink the UK’s carbon taxes, which he said cost him tens of millions of pounds each year that would otherwise be ploughed into investment.

Sir Jim warned the collapse of British Steel laid bare the damage done by Britain’s ideological and “uncompetitive energy policy”, which he said was putting UK companies out of business.

Read here.

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The Net Zero BlackOuts

It’s the dimming of the light of civilisation, part two.

JUPPLANDIA

Yesterday I put out a Substack article called Rage, Rage Against the Dying of the Light. The article was about the Gates backed UK government plans to provide 50-80 million pounds of funding and commence experiments to block out the sun.

I covered this extensively in my book Gates of Hell: Why Bill Gates is the Most Dangeous Man in the World.

A large part of that book was about the core problems with Gates, which are:

1. Totally undemocratic and unaccountable networks of power allowing one man with no elected role or mandate to direct public policy.

2. Totally corrupt circular funding streams that allow Gates to spark or prompt State funding as ‘philanthropy’ that then funnels into Gates investments.

3. Involvement in vast technological developments with zero risk analysis or restraint that are on such a scale that if they fail they can pose civilisational risk to all human society or even existential risks to all human life.

I pointed out that Gates was one of the biggest backers of Net Zero and all its associated measures, as well as his more notorious pandemic and vaccine influence.

Yesterday Spain, France and Portugal experienced massive blackouts. Look at Michael Schellenberger’s recent posts on X. The electricity supply in Europe came dangerously close to a continent wide blackout. Without a functioning energy grid, all the safety nets and supply chains and modern conveniences are gone. The economy and individuals can deal with this for a few hours, but any sustained collapse suddenly reverses centuries of progress and plunges mass modern populations with no basic survival skills into survival situations.

Here is Schellenberger’s take which I think is completely accurate:

And here is confirmation of the energy supply point:

An hour? Annoying, shameful to the operators of the system, but no big deal in terms of societal collapse. But what happens if your blackouts damage the network, or if you can’t get back to necessary capacity? What are modern cities going to look like after a week or a month of no electricity?

And what was the Spanish response to the blackout, by the way? Going into supermarkets and seizing water and food, either for the control of these supplies or in the expectation of widespread looting. Those are signs of a healthy working system aren’t they? We can’t supply electricity, and we are seizing the food. Nothing to see here!

All this is caused and risked by Net Zero madness. Forget the bullshit about cyberattacks or sabotage-this is pure system failure based on the utter uselessness of renewables and the insane ideological pursuit of Net Zero. Nobody outside needs to sabotage this system-it’s been sabotaged by energy policy choices from within, simply because politicians joined the Climate Change Cult and listened to the Net Zero lunacy of Bill Gates.

The Establishment shills will say “it’s a Russian cyberattack on energy networks”. The real alternative nutjobs will say “it’s an Israeli cyberattack on energy networks”. The reality is that it’s a Net Zero attack on energy networks by our own leaders. The inevitable consequence of a mad policy platform.

In my book I said very clearly, Gates projects risk civilisational collapse and that’s the LOWER risk scenario with these giant projects. Putting experiments in the veins of the entire global population risks a species ending event. Net Zero transfer from reliable energy sources to unreliable energy sources is a far greater risk than accepting that climate changes regardless of human activity and accepting that you can’t risk the alleged cure being worse than the assumed problem.

I have no problem with technological development of better energy sources, more ecologically sound approaches, or sane ideas held within morally and rationally acceptable limits. That is real progress. I have a huge problem with radical and destructive technologies, or technologies that just don’t work, being forced on people for ideological reasons regardless of the potential horrific consequences. That’s not progress, it’s progressivism, Globalism and reckless disregard for humanity.

If your claimed love of the planet is actually hatred of humanity, or a belief that modern standards of technologically ensured wellbeing should be reserved for the elite while the vast mass of us see our lives get noticeably worse, your policies are going to be the most dangerously anti-democratic, blindly Malthusian policies imaginable.

There are no guardrails on any of this and frankly much of it is not established science or legitimate research but rather the effect on policy you get when a radical religious cult talking about a Green Doomsday is allowed in combination with utterly ruthless billionaires looking only at their short term seizure of public spending to direct the energy policy of entire nations.

Nobody should want a combination of screeching lunatics in the Greta Thunberg category or scheming billionaires in the Bill Gates category or failed political midwits in the Ed Miliband category directing energy policy. But these are the people doing so.

The activists are too insane to know what they are doing. The billionaires are too greedy to care what they are doing. And the politicians are too stupid and corrupt to stop what they are doing.

Either short term or long term, either as temporary inconvenience or permanent reversal, these are the people who will plunge your whole civilisation into darkness.

Blackouts are your warning sign.

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