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Very major power outage in Spain, Portugal, France. Could be due to atmospheric conditions, a cyber attack or did they just run out of power?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14656089/Panic-blackout-Spain-indoors-queues-form-food-petrol-restore-power.html
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Or too much solar/wind?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14655733/How-huge-Spain-blackout-struck-days-grid-ran-entirely-green-power-time.html
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Coming to Australia under Labor Blackout Bowen/Greeens/TEALs
Blackout Chaos
Could renewable energy be to blame for huge Spain blackout? How outage struck days after country’s grid ran entirely on green power for the first time
The shocking blackouts, which struck around 12.35pm CEST, have impacted millions of people with almost all of Spain and Portugal affected as the Iberian Peninsula’s power grid was cut off from the wider European grid (ENTSO-E). Parts of France, Andorra, Belgium and the Netherlands also suffered outages, according to the most recent reports.
Analysts have suggested that the Spanish grid operator’s reliance on renewable energy sources to supply the majority of the nation’s electricity could have led to the blackout.
Traditional generators, like coal and hydroelectric plants or gas turbines, are connected directly to the grid via heavy spinning machines. When turned on, these massive machines are in constant motion and the inertia created by their weight and momentum acts like a shock absorber, helping to insulate the grid against a sudden disturbance – for example, in the event of a transmission failure.
Solar and wind power do not provide the natural inertia generated by these so-called ‘spinning machines’, leaving the grid more vulnerable to disruptions and subsequent oscillations in the electrical frequency.
An increase in reliance on solar, wind and other ‘low inertia’ power sources is the subject of concern for the European power network.
A report by ENTSO-E in 2022 warned that ‘a reduction in total system inertia significantly affects the capability to provide instantly matching balancing power’ when a disruption occurs.
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FREQUENCY STABILITY IN LONG-TERM SCENARIOS AND RELEVANT REQUIREMENTS
3 December 2021
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Are our skies being deliberately tampered with to slow down warming?
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/what-are-they-doing-to-our-skies-part-one-2/
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Shame on all of us sceptics who are apparently intimidating journalists about climate change
https://dailysceptic.org/todays-update/
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