Spain’s grid denies renewable energy to blame for massive blackout | News

REE says the outage cannot be blamed on Spain’s high share of renewable energy, cause not clear yet.

Spain’s grid operator has denied that solar power was to blame for the country’s worst blackout, as Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez faces increasing pressure to explain what went wrong.

Red Electrica de Espana (REE) on Wednesday said the source of the outage had been narrowed down to two separate incidents of loss of generation in substations in southwestern Spain, but stressed that it was…