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
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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.”
Owen Evans is a UK-based journalist covering a wide range of national stories, with a particular interest in civil liberties and free speech.
