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As confirmed by António Costa (President of the European Council) on X: https://x.com/eucopresident/status/1916859055546544517

Hot weather? Huh? It's spring

Spring is nowadays the best time for the grid and renewables. Low consumption as heating period is coming to and end, air conditioning is not required yet and the sun can be strong already providing lost if solar power output. I can imagine with a grid and a huge growth of solar generation that there are a myriad tripping stones that can upset the balance.

For areas utilizing hydro, spring tends to bring the strongest annual flows due to snow melt.

In the UK we're having one of the hottest springs on record. Spain and Portugal may be similar.

Might as well mean that they suspect the culprit, but they're not going to do anything anyway for this specific culprit, so let's all pretend it was an accident. Why make yourself look like a fool?

They already became a laughing stock once for promising the "strongest possible response" for the Nord Stream 2 sabotage [1].

[1] https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/eu-sees-sabotage-nor...