Blackout across Spain and Portgual

Today has been brutal for me personally due to my anxiety and other issues. Thankfully I’m home now and have electricity again but haven’t eaten since 7 this morning or been able to find out any information about what was going on. It’s really effected me a lot. I was due to shop today as I normally do on Monday and had no food in yet I couldn’t access any money, a kind neighbour who I’ve never met before gave me €20 that I was able to get essentials with and the bloke in the corner shop let me take whatever I wanted and said we’ll sort it out later, so while for me it’s shaken me up I have experienced some real kindess from folk.
 
parnabyscrosses said:
Today has been brutal for me personally due to my anxiety and other issues. Thankfully I’m home now and have electricity again but haven’t eaten since 7 this morning or been able to find out any information about what was going on. It’s really effected me a lot. I was due to shop today as I normally do on Monday and had no food in yet I couldn’t access any money, a kind neighbour who I’ve never met before gave me €20 that I was able to get essentials with and the bloke in the corner shop let me take whatever I wanted and said we’ll sort it out later, so while for me it’s shaken me up I have experienced some real kindess from folk.
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So sorry to hear that. It’s pretty scary that the power across a whole country (or in this case multiple countries) can just be knocked out like that. Especially as there is still no clear explanation as to why.

My father in law was in Mercadona in Madrid and the all the power just suddenly cut out. He was terrified.

Also good to know there is kindness during these types of moments.
 
parnabyscrosses said:
Today has been brutal for me personally due to my anxiety and other issues. Thankfully I’m home now and have electricity again but haven’t eaten since 7 this morning or been able to find out any information about what was going on. It’s really effected me a lot. I was due to shop today as I normally do on Monday and had no food in yet I couldn’t access any money, a kind neighbour who I’ve never met before gave me €20 that I was able to get essentials with and the bloke in the corner shop let me take whatever I wanted and said we’ll sort it out later, so while for me it’s shaken me up I have experienced some real kindess from folk.
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Aye, we have been watching this, from afar, in real time and with the commentary, knowing what was actually happening.
Millions of people in Spain and Portugal - no power, no TV, no nowt- obviously didn't have a clue what was going on.
I'm glad you got home and got some love from your neighbours to help you out. Friends for life, now. [smiley face]
 
MoggasDog said:
Aye, we have been watching this, from afar, in real time and with the commentary, knowing what was actually happening.
Millions of people in Spain and Portugal - no power, no TV, no nowt- obviously didn't have a clue what was going on.
I'm glad you got home and got some love from your neighbours to help you out. Friends for life, now. [smiley face]
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Thanks very much.
 
Boro_Madrid said:
So sorry to hear that. It’s pretty scary that the power across a whole country (or in this case multiple countries) can just be knocked out like that. Especially as there is still no clear explanation as to why.

My father in law was in Mercadona in Madrid and the all the power just suddenly cut out. He was terrified.

Also good to know there is kindness during these types of moments.
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Thanks mate. Yeah things like that really mess with my head and sent me into a bit of a spiral.

I was actually in a metro coming back from playing football when it suddenly stopped, luckily it had only just left the station so we were able to walk to the back of the train and get onto the platform. At that point I just thought it was a problem with that train though!
 
SanHolo said:
A half truth, it wouldn’t be an abnormal event if your grid wasn’t operating with minimal inertia.

Green tech is as sh1te and unreliable as has been warned about.
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As far as I know there have been no reports of this event being attributed to green energy. No report of lack of capacity. I'm not an electrical engineer but there seems to have been a frequency synchronisation problem.
 
Diesel generators are the future, they can help keep an EV on the road in such times, all the EV owners will be buying them now, they wont be caught out in future, they’re not daft.
 
ThePrisoner said:
As far as I know there have been no reports of this event being attributed to green energy
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The Guardian talked about it yesterday, my misses who lives just outside Madrid, when she was able to speak to me just after 10pm was talking about renewable energy being involved, I thought it was typical gossipy stuff until I read the guardian. It seems something to do with several different varying temperature and weather areas across the Iberian peninsula which causes some type of phenomena along the network and results in an outage.
I walked from North to South , east to west in the Iberian Peninsula and over the Pyrenees several times, I have marvelled at the amount of wind turbines, solar panel fields and hydro electricity dams that the Spanish have erected and continue to erect so it would be hard to really think of any problem arising that didn't involve green/ renewable energy
 
RavsFan said:
Diesel generators are the future, they can help keep an EV on the road in such times, all the EV owners will be buying them now, they wont be caught out in future, they’re not daft.
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Poor boy hasn’t heard of solar panels
 
ThePrisoner said:
As far as I know there have been no reports of this event being attributed to green energy. No report of lack of capacity. I'm not an electrical engineer but there seems to have been a frequency synchronisation problem.
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Can you explain to us what this frequency synchronisation problem could possibly have been.

While you are on at it can you explain the role inertia plays in frequency stability of a network under varying load conditions.
 
MoggasDog said:
Eh?


Mate, before we go any further, do you realise how MAGA that sounds?
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Translation, you’re married to net zero and you’re alluding to some Bollox connection that highlighting failures of green tech to run a nations energy grid is something to do with MAGA.

Anyway, It’s been confirmed the Spanish grid up to the point of the blackout had minimal inertia.

You cannot run a stable grid from fluctuating energy sources and keep it balanced. Atmospheric conditions is word salad for the grid tipped over because a grid needs stability which solar and wind will never provide.
 
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