Spanish MEPs from the right and far right seized on the debate in the European Parliament, on Wednesday 7 May, on the initial lessons to be learned from the massive blackout that hit the Iberian peninsula on 28 April (see EUROPE B13630A3) to criticise the energy policy of Pedro Sánchez’s government.
Convinced that the large injection of renewables into the Spanish energy system was the reason for the unprecedented blackout, Dolors Montserrat (EPP, Spanish) denounced the...