The media siege of renewables begins

30/04/2025
2 min

No one falls into the trap of looking at their palms to see if they're red and revealing themselves as the fart-ridden culprit of the blackout. No, the hands of politicians and energy companies offer accusatory remarks, in a scene of cross-reproaches, like a Tarantino scene with everyone pointing fingers at each other. The media is starting to take sides. The Country, for example, headlines "Sanchez points to the electricity sector" and says that the Spanish president "attacks against nuclear power." On the other hand,Abc adopts the PP's argument and opens the front page with "The lack of nuclear power and the boom in renewables brought down the electricity grid." This is a debatable statement, because the problem with nuclear power wasn't their scarcity, but rather that operating plants were shut down for safety reasons. And renewables are indeed unstable, but with the necessary investment, the necessary equipment can be installed to ensure they don't create imbalances between production and demand.

Wind farm in Pradell de la Teixeta, in Priorat. There are 1,257 MW of wind power in operation in Catalonia and 636.46 MW of wind power authorized.

There's a pending technical debate, and also an economic one, but everything indicates that the headlines being blasted from the front pages to the mainstream media are primarily driven by ideological motivations. Following the cross-cultural dance, The Vanguard The headline attributes it to Red Eléctrica, for saying that it "attributes the blackout to a shutdown of photovoltaic plants." He World, however, takes aim at the president of this company (and former socialist minister) with the headline "Corredor has ignored warnings about renewables for five years." The Newspaper and his "The government does not trust the sector." So much confusion causes that The Punt Avui He gives in and titles it "Electric Poltergeist," which brings the subject closer to esotericism and makes him entrust himself to Iker Jiménez. He sees that Bélmez's faces were not a warning of the coming cider.

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