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2025-04-29 10:17:02 UTC - NOT_HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 7A3C1E92A62F61934CDC71049AFF11B3385BC004932D0F312CF340EB894839DD
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This is an unverified claim that renewables were the cause of the outage. The Portuguese operator, REN, said the outage was caused by a “rare atmospheric phenomenon”, with extreme temperature variations in Spain causing “anomalous oscillations” in very high-voltage lines. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/28/power-begins-to-return-to-iberian-peninsula-after-unprecedented-blackout
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