🇪🇸🔌 24 March 2025: World Nuclear Association Highlights Concerns Over Spain’s Energy Future

In recent weeks, Spain has witnessed significant national discourse on the role of the Spanish nuclear fleet which has motivated many open conversations on its nuclear energy strategy.

Dr Bilbao y León raised concerns for Spain’s economy should it continue policy of phasing out nuclear power in the country, whilst promoting the benefits that nuclear energy offers as a clean, reliable, always-on power source.

"I am concerned about Spain’s economic future without nuclear energy. Progress and socioeconomic development require abundant, clean, and affordable energy, available every day, all year round. Nuclear power provides exactly this, and major energy consumers around the world—heavy industry, the chemical sector, transportation, artificial intelligence—are increasingly turning to it.”

https://world-nuclear.org/news-and-media/association-news/world-nuclear-association-highlights-concerns-over-spains-energy-future

🇪🇸🔌 Spain Signals Openness to Keeping Nuclear Power Plants Open

Spain is signaling for the first time that it’s open to reconsidering the shutdown of nuclear plants over the next decade amid a global revival of atomic energy.

While that’s not the plan agreed with nuclear plant operators, and it would be up to them to present concrete proposals, extensions are not ruled out, Environmental Transition Minister Sara Aagesen said in an interview.

“Nuclear energy will be present in our mix at least until 2035” but could go beyond that if companies propose extensions, which hasn’t happened yet, she said prior to an International Energy Agency summit on the future of energy security. “We’re not considering anything because there is no specific proposal on the table.”

The government’s energy roadmap aims to boost renewable power output to make up for the nuclear phaseout, while reducing dependence on fossil fuels. Spain’s goals of cutting carbon emissions in line with the Paris Agreement, which Aagesen has adamantly defended, haven’t changed with the US pulling out.

“There is no coming back,” she said. “Europe has always shown leadership and will continue to do so.”

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-24/spain-signals-openness-to-nuclear-phaseout-talks-with-utilities

🇪🇸🔌 Spain hits first weekday of 100% renewable power on national grid

Spain’s grid ran entirely on renewable energy for the first time on April 16, with wind, solar, and hydro meeting all peninsular electricity demand during a weekday. Five days later, solar set a new record, generating 20,120 MW of instantaneous power – covering 78.6% of demand and 61.5% of the grid mix.

https://www.pv-magazine.com/2025/04/22/spain-hits-first-weekday-of-100-renewable-power-on-national-grid/

🇪🇸📝 Less than two weeks later, the Iberian Peninsula suffers a widespread blackout leaving Portugal, Spain, as well as southern parts of France, without electricity for up to 10 hours.

The disruption was very likely caused by a loss of solar power generation in southern Spain. The grid self-stabilized according to reports before suffering from another loss of power generation moments before the Spain-France transmission line was interrupted due to grid instability. Another massive loss of renewable power followed immediately thereafter that caused a cascading failure of the power grid.

https://www.nbcnews.com/world/spain/live-blog/spain-portugal-power-outage-live-updates-widespread-blackouts-cause-ha-rcna203274

🇪🇸🔌 Spain is about to face the challenge of a “black start”

Since the Iberian Peninsula lost power in a massive blackout, grid operators are in the process of trying to restore power to millions of customers and businesses. As you might imagine, the process—termed a "black start"—is quite a bit more challenging than flicking on a switch. However, the challenge is made considerably more difficult because nearly everything about the system—from the management hardware that remotely controls the performance of the grid to the power plants themselves—needs power to operate.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/04/why-restarting-a-power-grid-is-so-hard/

🇮🇷💥❗️ — Reports of large blast at a military factory in Isfahan, Iran!

🇵🇰❌🇮🇳 — Pakistani and Indian media reports heavy armed clashes across the Line of Controll (LoC) in disputed Kashmir

🪖❗️🇺🇸🗯🇺🇦😵‍💫 — 📰 Financial Times | Nato chief to urge US not to force Ukraine into pro-Russia peace deal | Secretary-general Mark Rutte meets aides of Donald Trump who have sought settlement favouring Russian demands | April 24, 2025:

"Nato secretary-general Mark Rutte will urge President Donald Trump’s administration not to force Ukraine to accept a peace deal against its will, as the White House steps up pressure on Kyiv to acknowledge a de facto change in its borders.

Rutte will use meetings with Trump’s close aides on Thursday to argue that an unjust peace settlement that appeases Russian President Vladimir Putin would increase Moscow’s threat to Europe, said three officials briefed on the preparations.

The trip comes as Trump’s drive for a quick peace deal in Ukraine has threatened to drive a wedge between the US and Kyiv’s European allies."

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🗣🗯🌍🆗🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺 — ✔️ TASS | Recognition of Crimea, Donbass as part of Russia imperative in settlement — Lavrov | Moscow has made no secret regarding its position on the settlement, the Russian foreign minister added:

"MOSCOW, April 28. /TASS/. The international recognition of Crimea, the DPR, the LPR, the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions as part of Russia is an imperative in the settlement, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in an interview with the Brazilian newspaper O Globo.

"The international recognition of Crimea, Sevastopol, the DPR, the LPR, the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions as part of Russia is another imperative," he said. "All the commitments Kiev assumes must be legally binding, contain enforcement mechanisms and be permanent," Lavrov added.

Moscow has made no secret regarding its position on the settlement, the minister noted. "Russia proceeds from the premise that Kiev’s non-accession to NATO, as well as reaffirming its neutral and non-aligned status as per the 1990 Declaration on Ukraine’s State Sovereignty - these factors form one of the two pillars for a final settlement to the Ukraine crisis that would meet Russia’s security interests," he said. "The second pillar consists of overcoming the legacy of the neo-Nazi regime which took power in Kiev after the February 2014 putsch, including the initiative by its perpetrators to eradicate and cancel, in both physical and legislative terms, everything Russian, be it the Russian language, media, culture, traditions, or the canonical Orthodox faith," Lavrov explained.

"Demilitarising and de-Nazifying Ukraine is also on the agenda, along with lifting sanctions, withdrawing lawsuits and cancelling arrest warrants, as well as returning Russian assets subjected to the so-called freeze in the West," he emphasized.

Russia will also insist on obtaining solid security guarantees for itself in order to shield it from any threats "emanating from hostile activities by NATO, the European Union and some of their member states along our western border," the minister concluded."

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🇺🇦🗯🚫😵‍💫🆗🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺 — 🇮🇪 Moscow based Irish journalist Chay Bowes on 𝕏:

"A Ukrainian Army brigade commander openly threatens Zelensky on a Ukrainain TV show.

He warns him not to negotiate with Russia, not to concede territory, or he will "Regret it"

Open threats to the commander in chief from his own troops, Ukraine is a lawless basket case."

🔗 Chay Bowes (@BowesChay)