Spanish authorities were experimenting with how far they could push their reliance on renewable energy before the Iberian Peninsula was hit with a massive power outage last month, it has been suggested.
As people wait for more answers on what caused the dystopian power cut that disrupted tens of millions of lives across Spain and Portugal, several have questioned Spain's heavy reliance on renewable energy sources as it plans to phase out nuclear reactors.
Spain's socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has rejected such criticism, asking for patience while the government investigates the causes of the historic blackout.
Spain’s electric grid operator Red Eléctrica de España pinned it on a significant and unprecedented drop in power generation.
Now, it has been suggested that the Spanish government was carrying out an experiment before the country's grid system crashed, The Telegraph reports.
