Since adopting its Climate Change and Energy Transition Law in May 2021, Spain has committed to achieving climate neutrality by 2050.

A woman uses her phone’s flashlight while she walks her dog during a massive blackout affecting the entire Iberian Peninsula on April 28, 2025. Miguel Riopa/AFP via Getty Images
French President Emmanuel Macron has said that Spain’s reliance on renewable energy was central to 2025’s unprecedented Iberian blackout.
Macron said in a Feb. 10 interview with Spanish newspaper El País that the issue in Spain is “a false debate.”


