Solar's hidden problem (and how to solve it)

Published at : 23 Dec 2025

Solar is booming worldwide, slashing costs and driving the clean energy transition. But this rapid growth comes with its cost: grids in countries like Spain, Australia and Greece have buckled under the pressure. But there are ways to handle this.

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Credits:
Reporter: Kai Steinecke
Camera: Florian Kroker
Video Editor: Andreas Hyronimus
Supervising Editors: Adam Baheej Adada, Malte Rohwer-Kahlmann
Factcheck: Alexander Paquet
Thumbnail: Em Chabridon

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:47 Spinning electricity generation
02:10 Grid stability
05:52 Spain’s unusual blackout
07:55 Solutions
09:27 Conclusion

Read more:
What happened in the Spanish Black out:
https://www.entsoe.eu/publications/blackout/28-april-2025-iberian-blackout/
https://spectrum.ieee.org/spain-grid-failure

Spanish Government Report: https://www.lamoncloa.gob.es/consejodeministros/resumenes/Documents/2025/Informe-no-confidencial-Comite-de-analisis-28A.pdf

Fix for solar power blackouts:
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2025-bottlenecks-blackouts-grid-stability-solar-wind/?embedded-checkout=true

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