FA --> Grid instability caused by too many of these is a well known problem...
FO --> Grid collapse.
Posted on 04/28/2025 1:07:37 PM PDT by tired&retired
There is very little information on the cause of the major power outage in Europe that just happened at 12:20 local time.
"While Spain’s prime minister has said the cause of the blackout remains unknown, REN has said there was a "very large oscillation in the electrical voltages, first in the Spanish system, which then spread to the Portuguese system"."
Was it a CME?
Was is a space weapon?
The following are a collection of comments from several news articles.
"No sign blackout wascaused by cyberattack, says REN Portuguese grid operator REN said on Monday it had "no information" that the mass power outages that hit the Iberian Peninsula were caused by a cyberattack.
REN board member Joao Conceicao told reporters the operator did not rule out that the blackout was due to a "very large oscillation in the electrical voltages, first in the Spanish system, which then spread to the Portuguese system"."
Portuguese grid operator REN said it hoped to reestablish the power supply in the country's second-largest city, Porto, within the next two hours and within five or six hours in the capital, Lisbon.
"Michael Basquill, living in Torremolinos, told The Independent that he resides in one of the areas where power has been restored, although he worries it’s only temporary.
“For us, the situation involved more than just a loss of electricity. The outage also knocked out our mobile network, leaving us without any form of communication.
“Additionally, the water supply to our apartment was cut off—likely because the city’s pumping systems require electricity as well. It truly felt apocalyptic”, he said.
“For about six hours, we were completely isolated, unable even to make calls for information”, he added. “It was a total guessing game as to what was happening.”
“As of now, services seem to be back to normal, but we are unsure whether this is a full restoration or a temporary fix powered by generators.”
CNN: "Cause under investigation: There is no conclusive information on what caused the power outage, Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said. Earlier, Antonio Costa, president of the European Council and Portugal's former prime minister, said there are “no indications” of a cyberattack."
Why did Spain lose its electric?
The blackout was caused by a “very strong oscillation in the electrical network” that led Spain’s power system to “disconnect from the European system, and the collapse of the Iberian electricity network at 12:38,” according to Eduardo Prieto, director of Spanish transmission system operator Red Eléctrica.(53 mins ago)
The wind stopped blowing.
Most likely an uncontrolled variation in line voltage/current from some “green” energy source like wind turbines or solar panels that cascaded through the system.
Portugal’s grid operator REN said “extreme temperature variations” in Spain had produced unexpected fluctuations across high voltage lines. That had caused parts of the grid to fall out of sync, “leading to successive disturbances across the interconnected European network.”
Godzilla or Pacific rim activity maybe?
Dandelion fluff.
J B Pritzker farted toward Asia instead of Europe and all the wind turbines shut down in Portugal and Spain.
On Steve Bannon’s War Room this morning, his energy expert was on talking about the blackouts.
He dismissed completely any notion of an CME or atmospheric condition causing the blackout, saying either a CME or other atmospheric condition would have covered a much larger area and not be isolated to a relatively isolated area in Europe
His belief is, Spain and Portugal in particular have gone 100% Green New Deal and rely on wind and solar for the majority of their power, which is notoriously unreliable as a primary source of power for an entire country.
If the grids are interconnected, once one country fails, it overloads the grids it’s connected to and can cause a cascading effect.
His bottom line, this was green energy madness run amok and not some natural event like a CME.
FA --> Grid instability caused by too many of these is a well known problem...
FO --> Grid collapse.
Maybe clouds???
Prove it isn't true.
No one expects the Spanish Inquisition.
Looking at weather info, very warm temps today, light winds in most regions but windy near southern tip of Spain. Perhaps a surge of wind energy from that region and no contributions in other regions created an imbalance in power generation?
Squirrel zotted in a transformer.
Those darn oscillations.
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