MIL-OSI Europe: Written question – Resilience and improvement of the EU’s electricity grid infrastructure – drawing lessons from the Iberian Peninsula blackout – E-002516/2025

Question for written answer  E-002516/2025
to the Commission
Rule 144
Harald Vilimsky (PfE), Georg Mayer (PfE)

The large-scale blackout on 28 April 2025 in Spain and Portugal was an alarming demonstration of how fragile and compromised Europe’s energy supply has become. The explosive volatility of electricity prices and the consequences for consumers and industry are becoming increasingly worrying.

• 1.Is the Commission planning to get national energy suppliers and operators more involved in the protection of critical infrastructure, or even a return to more state control in order to prevent supply disruptions in future?
• 2.How will it ensure that renewable energy development does not continue to cause instability in prices and grids?
• 3.In the light of recent events and the energy crisis, is it ready to subject the targets of the Green Deal and ‘Fit for 55’ package to a substantive review in order to minimise the risks to the EU’s energy supply and competitiveness, rather than sticking to ideological requirements?

Submitted: 23.6.2025