The weather. Tomorrow, expect a biting cold front. Hmm, how naughty. I wonder what I'll be

wearing or taking off. The night will be wild and untamed. Expect heavy, lashing rain

that'll soak you to the skin. By Monday, temperatures will rise slowly but surely reaching

their peak in the afternoon.

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This is John Batchel, a conversation with Simon Constable in France following up on his report of the blackouts in Spain and Portugal and parts

of France some days passed, still being investigated, still open question about whether it was

cybercrime or not. However, whether it's man-made or accidental, the question is raised about renewables and reliability at all times.

And why not have a backup, such as nuclear or natural gas?

Is Simon reasoning how the big electricity generators think about what they learned in Spain and Portugal.

Admiral, but more of this tonight.

The story is fascinating to me.

Let me give you the overview of what I was told by an expert in this field,

is that what had happened was a couple of things.

One is this year so far, Spain and Portugal had a tremendous amount of sun and they

managed to capture that but with solar panels and convert it into electricity.

Now that also forced the prices of electricity down from over 100 euros per megawatt

hour to 11 at a low.

And that 11 amount wasn't enough for the nuclear power plants to receive in order for them

to not lose money by actually producing electricity.

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