Spain and Portugal are racing the setting sun as they respond to a massive, unexplained power outage that knocked out traffic lights, caused chaos on roads and in airports, and threatened to plunge tens of millions of people into darkness on Monday.
Power restored in parts of central Madrid reut.rs/3RDAOj5
-- Reuters (@reuters.com) April 28, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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75% of Spain's power comes from natural gas and nuclear.
#5 | POSTED BY DIALAGAIN
you sure, they were destroying Nukes like crazy last 3 years.
Spain generated 148,999 GWh of renewable energy in 2024, accounting for 56.8% of total electricity production, according to grid operator Red Elctrica de Espaa (REE).
Growth in installed renewable capacity and favorable weather conditions drove a 35.5% increase in hydropower output compared to 2023, while solar PV generation rose 18.9%, setting a record for the sixth consecutive year.
www.pv-magazine.com
Six days ago...
Six days ago, the media celebrated a significant milestone: Spain's national grid operated entirely on renewable energy for the first time during a weekday. At 12:35 pm today local time, the lights went out across Spain and Portugal, and parts of France. Although power was quickly restored in France, it could take a week to fully restore power in Spain and Portugal.
www.climatedepot.com
The issue as I understand it is the Freq of the AC lines dropped to an unacceptable level, almost knocked out all of Europe.
Before the outage hit, Spain was running its grid with very little dispatchable spinning generation, and therefore no much inertia.
Solar PV/thermal + wind: ~78%
Nuclear: 11.5%
Co-generation: 5%
Gas-fired: ~3% (less than 1GW)
Snapshot at 12.30pm local time (outage was 12.35pm)
x.com
Additional info regarding potential negative impact of inverter technology and renewables on grid.
euroweeklynews.com
"Pro-Russian" hacker group Dark Storm Team has taken to social media to claim joint responsibility with NoName057 for the blackout that affected millions across Spain, Portugal, and parts of other European countries: Link: euroweeklynews.com
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