Spain suffers blackout: billions of billions due to planning errors!

Spain suffers blackout: billions of billions due to planning errors!

A large -scale power failure occurred in Spain and Portugal at the end of April 2025, which affected thousands of people and provided massive chaos. After an official investigation, the Ministry of Energy in Madrid named a large planning error by the network operator REE as the main cause of the incident. Energy Minister Sara Aagebes confirmed that the additional power plant capacity was only planned for early hours, which led to inadequate capacities for dynamic tension control in central times of the day. The power failure lasted several hours and led to various disorders in public transport and in city life.

Before the large -scale blackout, there were previous power outages with a total output of around 2.2 gigawatts in southern Spain. These short -term failures were registered just one minute before the power grids were completely collapsed. The analysis by the umbrella organization of the European transmission system operators, Ento-E, showed that there were no causal power outages in Portugal and France, although the incident paralyzed large parts of the Iberian Peninsula.

concrete events

On April 28, 2025, there was a precise sequence of events:

• 12:32 p.m.: Several power outages in the south of Spain with a total output of 2.2 gigawatts.
• 12:33:18 p.m.: Frequency of the power grid of the Iberian Peninsula fell to 48.0 Hz.
• 12:33:21 p.m.: Switching off the AC exemptions between France and Spain.
• 12:33:24 p.m.: Complete collapse of the Iberian power grid.

The Spanish government has not yet commented on the causes in detail, but is examining the available data from electricity producers and the network operator. Analysts from RBC Capital Markets identified solar parks in southern Spain as the likely main cause of blackout. They pointed out that a series of shutdowns of solar systems contributed decisively to the instability of the network. The strong growth of solar capacities in Spain has meant that many systems are net and are unable to effectively stabilize the current frequency.

The challenges of renewable energies

The problems associated with the use of renewable energies are clear by the recent event. A central challenge is to achieve a balance between production and consumption. The fluctuating nature of renewable energy generation often leads to frequency and tension anomalies. These can overload the existing transmission network, especially in the case of lace loads.

The International Energy Agency (IEA) reports a significant growth in the sector of renewable energies, which is to increase by 50% between 2019 and 2024. Despite this positive development, the integration of renewable sources requires additional measures to stabilize. Experts recommend using energy storage technologies and intelligent power grids to master the challenges of network stability. Solutions such as the installation of blind performance compensation systems and the construction of high-voltage equal current transmission lines could be crucial to avoid such incidents in the future.