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Topics => Science, Technology, & Medicine => Topic started by: patentlymn on April 29, 2025, 06:05:18 PM
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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://pbs.twimg.com/media/GppikjhWgAA_wO4?format=jpg&name=small)
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)
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GpoLbKXXIAAY4Xg?format=png&name=small)
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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.”
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gpsp7J3XoAEIUoQ?format=jpg&name=small)
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Now that right there is what I call some world class virtue signalling. ::laughonfloor::
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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.