After the blackout, they already earn too much!

These days, trying to separate my fears and uncertainties, I've been wondering how to approach and translate what I experienced during and after the blackout . I've been tempted to recall what it meant for me to cling to a tiny radio that evoked my childhood experiences, mostly soccer-related, and how it showed us all how vulnerable this technologically advanced society is, incapable of applying ethics to artificial intelligence, which had to seek support and refuge in small, battery-powered radios manually aligned with their antennas. There have been hours and hours of debates, discussions, analysis, and even harangues in favor of forgetting that we owe a planet to our children and that it deserves at the very least a more calm and serious reflection once we know precisely the causes of this unimaginable and extraordinary event. The time will come for accountability, and it must be demanded , but doing so before knowing precisely what happened seems at the very least opportunistic and unbelievable.

We're going from unimaginable and extraordinary situations to even more extraordinary ones. It's not easy to explain what happened, and the important thing is that people showed reasonable civility. Given what happened, it's very important to provide good information to the public and establish good coordination with all the stakeholders involved in the problem. And the truth is that information was late and scarce , a fact that has a very broad public opinion on this. And regarding the problem itself, I want to remind you that all the summits between Spain and France have addressed our connection to the European grid, the last one in 2015, and still with lukewarm progress. It's worth noting that even so, Red Eléctrica Española, faced with an unprecedented "zero energy" that had never occurred , reacted well and stated that power would be restored within six to ten hours, and that was the case for the most part.

Considering we are an energy island, it's important to highlight this. After hearing Mr. Abascal's outrageous remarks, he confirmed to me that the internet outage, despite its negative consequences, had the advantage of not helping spread hoaxes, and therefore the political noise wasn't what it used to be. The public emergency services worked, and that should reassure us all. However, regarding the open debate itself and our energy transition, these aren't all elements that lead us to certainty . The number of commentators questioning alternative energy sources and favoring nuclear energy is a testament to the power of large electricity companies and the right wing, supporting the erosion of power to undermine the government. It's certainly reasonable to debate the speed of this already designed transition; we must delve deeper into the security of infrastructure, but also into who should pay for it. It doesn't seem that at this time certain interests are considering that this security, these investments, or even the auction model for our energy mix, should be evaluated with the interests of citizens in mind, but rather with those who already earn a lot—I would say too much.