Topic: Spain power outage

[patentlymn]

I heard that the EU wants to connect  Spain  to their grid.

https://x.com/WillHild/status/1916953125992157668
For those keeping score at home:

April 22nd: Spain brags about hitting 100% renewable power.

April 28th: Spain has the nation's largest blackout in history.


https://x.com/JavierBlas/status/1916857352197701963

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)

[patentlymn]

The Iberian Peninsula… wiped off the map of lights. This is how it looked from orbit last night after a massive blackout hit Spain and Portugal. Cosmic silence over the region.”

[Syzygy]

Now that right there is what I call some world class virtue signalling.

[patentlymn]

I recall the EU rated Spain #1 in removing "river obstructions." This meant dams and maybe other stuff. Then came very heavy rains and massive flooding. Grok says this removal did not cause the flooding. Failure to build a planned dam may have made things worse.

Also, years ago, Spain paid high rates to people who generated electricity from solar. Some was generated at night. From diesel generators.