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Full Segment: Morano on Fox on The Bottom Line – talking Spain’s energy blackout & how Calif. Gov. Newsom is still dictating gas car ban policy in the U.S.
Broadcast April 28, 2025 pic.twitter.com/D9t0lzhsll— Marc Morano (@ClimateDepot) April 29, 2025
Fox Business – The Bottom Line – Broadcast April 28, 2025
Rough Transcript: (See: Congrats to Spain! Nation goes 100% renewable as of April 16th 2025! – But…Then Mass Blackouts Hit Spain, Portugal
Joining us now is Marc Morano, ClimateDepot.com Executive Editor. I love the reporting on this, Marc. No official cause has been confirmed. Grid operators are investigating and looking into fluctuation or strong oscillations or voltage imbalances. What do you think it is?
Marc Morano: Well, they’re now claiming it’s ‘induced atmospheric vibration’, which if you do Google searches, the phrase didn’t even exist or no one even used that prior to today. This should have been a cause for celebration in Spain — solar and wind powering the grid, Net Zero works! Where’s Al Gore? Where’s AOC? — But it all came crashing down!
Now people are going to say, ‘Oh you don’t know that it was solar and wind.’ We do, for one simple reason. Spain has been focused on net zero and when you have that much, particularly solar power and renewables running, it is not a durable power system, and it can’t handle shocks to the system. So if we did have an ‘induced atmospheric vibration’ or if Texas had its cold snap a few years ago, when you have that much shock to the system at that moment, renewable energy can’t adapt.
And that’s the bottom line. Whereas fossil fuel-based energy can adapt to all kinds of shocks to the system. So right, when Spain is celebrating all the usual media, celebrating it, and the climate activists, the whole thing goes belly up on them.
And Spain is very guilty in this, by the way, in their history. A couple of years ago, they had that new law that limits shop owners in stores to 80 or 81°F temperature with AC, you can’t go colder as part of meeting climate goals, and the energy rationing on which they were imposing. So this is going to be obviously investigated, but the main thing is, their energy grid in Spain and Portugal was not adaptable, they were not able to handle the shock because of the high amount of solar and wind. It’s that simple, and that’s not going to be overturned; they’re going to come up with all sorts of other reasons that triggered it, but fossil fuels could have handled it.
Morano: Donald Trump literally took us on a U-turn away from this Net Zero. In Europe, to give them credit, they halted the Green Deal last summer, they had big gains by anti-climate activists or whatever you want to call anti-net-zero activists in their Parliament. German elections were a shock, so Europe is waking up to the fact that this is not sustainable.
We had the city of New Orleans in Super Bowl, 47, about 10 years ago. They bragged about how the Super Bowl was going to have this solar and wind-powered stadium and meet all these climate goals, and then what happened during Super Bowl 47? A massive blackout during the live telecast in the New Orleans stadium. (See: 2013: U.S. Department of Energy praised the Superdome’s energy efficiency: ‘Sunday’s game the greenest in Super Bowl history’)
So it has a way of making a mockery of these claims, and just thank God that the United States realizes now that energy is the lifeblood of our civilization, and this is basically an experiment that Spain’s been conducting.
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Major automakers want Congress to bar California 2035 electric vehicle plan
Host question: Marc before we jump, the major automakers are urging Congress to ban California stop California from mandating that only electric vehicles will be sold a new vehicle, starting in 2035, and this because the House of Representatives is getting ready to vote this week under to overturn through the congressional review act, what Biden was. Trying to do how does this impact the whole country though?
Morano: This is 40% of the car market in the United States because it’s California and 11 other states that follow suit. Now, remember, how did this gas car ban happen? Did we vote on it? California must have voted on it? No. Gavin Newsom issued an executive order, then the California Air Resources Board issued these regulations and 11 states and more followed that order — there’s been no vote on it.
So at least the US Congress is now getting involved to overturn it. The automakers don’t want it. The consumers don’t want it. We’re only 7% of cars sales at Evs, so this is something that has to be overturned.
You can’t let Gavin Newsom, dictate our energy policies.
Host: Marc, love it, thank you for joining.
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Spain’s blackout wasn’t just a technical failure. It was a political, strategic, and technical failure. Spain celebrated the destruction of their nuclear plants. Now they’re seeing the result of this decision.
Analysis: ‘Spain was running its grid with very little of what’s called ‘dispatchable spinning generation’ – Therefore, power plants were not able to ‘quickly adjust their output to keep the grid stable’ – Before the outage hit, Spain was running its grid with very little of what’s called “dispatchable spinning generation” (also known as inertia). … “Dispatchable spinning generation” means power plants, like gas or nuclear, that can quickly adjust their output to keep the grid stable. The name “spinning” refers to the turbines that traditional generation plants such as coal, gas, nuclear that use spinning turbines help with this. Traditional plants provide this with their spinning turbines, but renewables don’t, making the grid more fragile if you don’t have a way to very rapidly load-balance in the case of an outage. This likely contributed to the outage that hit Spain, Portugal, and parts of France, as the grid couldn’t handle sudden disruptions well.
UK Telegraph: ‘Net zero blamed for Europe’s biggest power cut’ – ‘Experts say a reliance on solar & wind power left Spain & Portugal vulnerable’ – Traditional energy systems have mechanisms which allow them to keep running even if there is a shock, such as a surge or loss of power. However, solar and wind do not have the same ability.
