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[ponytug]

Didn't Portugal and Spain just have a huge power outage when the wind dropped and it stayed cloudy for a long time?
Yes they did.

No, sorry, but the outage was caused by human incompetence in the system managers. Not surprisingly, it took them awhile to fess up.

All the best,

Peter

 

[WinterDeere]

Didn't Portugal and Spain just have a huge power outage when the wind dropped and it stayed cloudy for a long time?
Yes they did.

No. It was actually the opposite. Outage was caused by excessive voltage. There were no reports of insufficient power to the grid due to lack of supply, up to and including the time of the outage.

Bad implementation followed by bad management, not bad technology.

edit: sorry for redundant post... just saw @ponytug already posted the same.

 

[MossRoad]

Yep, read all about it.

2025 Iberian Peninsula blackout - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Also, look at the weather there that day.... it was beautiful.

what was the weather like on the iberian peninsula On Monday, 28 April 2025 right before the blackout?


On Monday, April 28, 2025, just before the Iberian Peninsula blackout, the weather was
sunny, mild, and calm, with no extreme weather events reported. Early media speculation about a "rare atmospheric phenomenon" causing the power outage was denied by electricity officials and later attributed to a misunderstanding. The blackout was ultimately attributed to a surge in voltage within the electricity grid, not weather.

Weather before the blackout

• The blackout occurred at 12:33 CEST, or 11:33 WEST, in the early afternoon.
• The morning was described as a "normal Monday" with a "particularly nice: a sunny, mild spring" forecast.
• Reports from energy analysts confirmed that there was nothing unusual about the weather in Iberia on that day.
• A weather forecast for Monaco on April 28 described a sunny morning in the region, with afternoon thunderstorms expected in the nearby Alpes-Maritimes department of France. However, this was unrelated to the cause of the blackout in Spain and Portugal.

 

[kenmbz]

yet, from the local authorities:
Authorities have already taken steps, such as updating operational procedures to allow renewable energy sources to contribute more to voltage control, to prevent similar incidents in the future.

I love when government people contradict themselves.
They had a temperature increase the days leading up to the outage.

 

[WinterDeere]

I love when government people contradict themselves.
They had a temperature increase the days leading up to the outage.

First instinct of any government official or spokesperson is always CYA. They can adjust the facts to fit the story, later.

I'm not pretending wind is a flawless resource, but like everything else, just one more tool in the box.