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Explainer: How Spain’s reliance on solar energy is linked to ‘unprecedented’ blackout

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said the country lost 60% of national electricity supply in just five seconds.

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Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez
A 'sudden and severe' imbalance in the Iberian Peninsula's power grid has been identified as the cause of the 'historic' blackout that affected Spain, Portugal and parts of France on Monday. The sudden imbalance was caused by a rapid drop in the

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