By Jo Nova

The cause of the mysterious oscillations and the big Iberian blackout is still a mystery, and it will take six months before the world has forgotten, sorry, I mean before the official report is finished.

In the meantime, baffled Spanish grid managers, who couldn’t possibly speculate on the cause, have cranked up the nuclear power and the gas, and reduced solar generation for no reason in particular. It’s all very odd, because gas is more expensive, and sun is free.

The Minister accidentally called this “Strengthened Mode” . (Didn’t they used to call it pollution?).

Lest we forget — in the hours before the crash, solar power was providing 60% of the energy, while nuclear power was covering 11%, and gas was just 3%.

Net Zero Spain leans on Nuclear, Gas to keep the lights on after historic Blackout

By Oliver JJ Lane, Breitbart

Spain is running its national power grid in “strengthened mode”, using more nuclear and natural gas in place of the renewables it vaunted before last month’s historic blackout, but still hasn’t said what started the outage.

Bloomberg energy industry journalist Javier Blas, who is Spanish, further […]