In April, Spain suffered a nationwide blackout that lasted nearly a full day. It was a traumatic event for one of Europe&rsquo;s fastest adopters of solar power, tripling capacity in just five years. The outage sparked a big question: Was solar to blame? And what will it take to avoid blackouts in the renewables era? Bloomberg Green&rsquo;s Laura Millan joins Akshat Rathi on Zero to unpack the lessons from the Iberian Peninsula and the technologies that could make such blackouts a thing of the past. Explore further: <ul> <li aria-level="1"><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-16/spain-blackout-investigation-shows-eu-grids-need-more-resilience">Spain Blackout Investigation Shows EU Grids Need More Resilience</a></li> <li aria-level="1">Past episodes of the Bottlenecks Series&nbsp;</li> <ul> <li aria-level="2"><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-06-05/the-green-transition-needs-more-workers">The Green Transition Needs More Workers</a></li> <li aria-level="2"><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-12/there-aren-t-enough-cables-to-meet-growing-electricity-demand">There Aren&rsquo;t Enough Cables to Meet Growing Electricity Demand</a></li> <li aria-level="2"><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2025-bottlenecks-transformers/">The One Device Throttling the World&rsquo;s Electrified Future</a></li> </ul> </ul> Zero is a production of Bloomberg Green. Our producer is Oscar Boyd. Special thanks to Eleanor Harrison Dengate, Siobhan Wagner, Sommer Saadi and Mohsis Andam. Thoughts or suggestions? Email us at zeropod@bloomberg.net. For more coverage of climate change and solutions, visit <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/green">https://www.bloomberg.com/green</a>.See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.

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