What did you hear?

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And what are your thoughts on the story(s) you herd about our "blackout" here in Portugal and Spain this past Monday that lasted 10/13 hours?
 
   / What did you hear? #3  
I saw a story on the news but wasn't clear at all on the cause. Failure of the grid due to renewable energy issues? Shutdown of base load generation? Incompetent operation? What was it?
 
   / What did you hear? #4  
If we had a nationwide (or even statewide) blackout of that duration, they'd have to declare martial law here.
 
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I saw a story on the news but wasn't clear at all on the cause. Failure of the grid due to renewable energy issues? Shutdown of base load generation? Incompetent operation? What was it?
Spain had shut down the base load on April 16 and temperatures started to rise Sunday the 27th what could go wrong, the governments claim it was a atmospheric phenomenon that zapped the power from the grid, I guess they forgot they shut it off over a week ago to try out the RE only. More lies.
 
   / What did you hear? #7  
Is the news media digging in to get the truth out? We simply can't afford to have unreliable energy delivery.
 
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Actually, I just looked at Fox News and they did report that it was being blamed on a couple of solar installations. They also mentioned that there were some dubious claims of atmospheric issues disturbing the grid harmonics . . . Surprising that it's not a MUCH bigger story.

We're trying to run large portions of our electical grid on batteries -- what could go wrong?

More and more solar installations popping up here too. Thousands of acres covered in panels and battery storage units.
 

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