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On April 16, 2025, Spain celebrated a green energy triumph. Just six days later, the lights went out across the entire country. April 16: Spain’s first weekday of 100% renewable power In a historic achievement, Spain’s national grid was powered entirely by renewable energy on Tuesday, April 16 – the first time this has ever happened on a weekday. Between 10:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m., wind, solar, and hydro met 100 per cent of mainland electricity demand, according to Red Eléctrica (cited by PV Magazine). At 11:15 a.m., wind and solar alone produced 100.63 per cent of demand. April 22:...

Today there have been widespread electricity blackouts across Europe, beginning in Spain and Portugal in the early afternoon (local time), and then spreading to other countries including France, Andorra, Belgium and the Netherlands. Is this related to the increasing penetration of intermittent generation from wind and solar facilities? For years, many in the climate skeptic community have warned that expansion of intermittent renewable electricity generation on the grid will, sooner or later, lead to frequent blackouts. The reason for the warning is easy to understand: The grid has some rather exacting operational requirements that the intermittent renewable generation technologies cannot...

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...