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Iberia’s blackout: a wake up call?

May 8, 2025
34:25

Since parts of Spain, Portugal, and France temporarily lost power on Monday 28th April, TSOs and policy makers across Europe have been quick to try and assess how much their own networks are at risk of a similar blackout.

Whilst we await conclusions from Entso-e’s investigations as to the cause of the outage, in this week’s episode Richard speaks to the Secretary General of Eurelectric and Rystad Energy about what this incident tells us about the reliability of Europe’s grid and our increasing dependency on electricity. What does the outage tell us about the need for flexibility and storage in an increasingly green power system?

Presenter: Richard Sverrisson - Editor-in-Chief, Montel News
Contributor: Pablo Bronte - Editor, Montel Iberia

Guests: 
Kristian Ruby - Secretary General, Eurelectric
Pratheeksha Ramdas - Senior New Energies Analyst, Rystad Energy

Editor: Bled Maliqi
Producer: Sarah Knowles

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