When the Iberian Peninsula went dark, it wasn’t a weather anomaly, cyberattack, or system hack that triggered chaos—it was the grid itself. One of Europe’s most advanced renewable energy regions lost 15 GW in just five seconds, halting airports, collapsing public transit, and leaving millions without direction. But this wasn’t a collapse of green energy—it was the collapse of an aging, centralized system struggling to accommodate new realities.
