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section_name: Political perspectives
paragraph_text: Political perspectives
  
  Some political groups, including the Spanish far-right Vox party, attributed the blackout to over-reliance on renewables and called for a more diversified energy mix. An energy analyst at Rystad Energy, Pratheeksha Ramdas, said that greater amounts of renewables in the power system may have made the grid susceptible to outages, but that there are multiple possible causes of the disturbance. Henning Gloystein, director for energy at the Eurasia Group research firm, claimed it might have been easier to keep the system functioning if conventional energy sources like oil and gas had a larger presence.
  
  However, several officials and energy experts have rejected the idea that renewables are to blame. EU energy commissioner, Dan Jørgensen, stated that there was "nothing unusual" about the electricity mix at the time of the blackout, and that the outage was not due to a "specific source energy". Daniel Muir, a European power analyst at S&P Global, said the nature and scale of the outage makes renewable energy an unlikely cause. Spain's Environment Minister, Sara Aagesen, emphasised that the system had operated reliably under similar demand and energy mixes in the past, and Beatriz Corredor, president of REE and member of Spain's ruling party, said that it was inaccurate to attribute the blackout to Spain's growing use of renewable energy. At a press conference on 29 April, Sánchez dismissed allegations that renewable energy caused the power cut, calling them "lies" and criticising those who blamed the blackout on Spain's reliance on wind and solar power.