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."
Maybe the phenomena is called a fuse.
Interesting you say that since Al Gore has been making the rounds again lately. Maybe he’s got a new book to sell, I don’t really care
Spain has announced that Spain is the first country to go to all nonfossil sources for its electrical grid . Dis the wind stop? Did Spain have more cloudy days than expected?
“My solar inverter beeps and disconnects from the grid whenever it detects that the grid power deviates too far from 60 Hz”
Why doesn’t your inverter grid follow? Mine will adjust phase to follow all the way down to 59 hz or lower. Inverters don’t have reactive power requirements they can follow any phase angle or hertz with ease. No home has an inertial load that needs reactive power , even AC compressors the largest reactive loads in a residence are a fraction of the total load. I have two large compressors and both can be driven directly from my inverters with little loss in power factor. The only reason my inverters will trip is the grid is pulling more than they can push out and that’s gonna be a phase angle well more than 1hz which means the grid itself is down they will follow deep into 59.2 hz. I don’t habe small systems I crossed 100 kw recently on property , the windmill is up now a 50kw variable pitch on a 30 meter monopole.
I think the rain in Spain was mainly falling on the plain.
Perhaps.
Someone has a functioning EMP weapon that doesn’t need a nuclear blast.
Merda in Catalan and Portuguese. Mierda in Spanish. One traveling internationally needs to know how to communicate with the locals.
To clarify, when my inverters disconnect from the grid, the power doesn’t go out in the house. So far, the disconnects haven’t happened during the few times I need the grid. I believe the other the inverters that make the adjustments that you describe are the ones that can’t power the home without maintaining a connection to the grid.
Lo siento por los palabras en Francaise.
I should have said,
Que tipo de mierda es esto? Yo no soy marinero, soy capitán.
or
Cuando se arme la gorda, empiece a salpicar mierda.
Spain’s big blackout came less than week after it went full green on electricity
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4313907/posts
Spain’s 100% renewable energy milestone followed by historic blackout – Coincidence?
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4313945/posts
Spanish power BLACKOUT: Why Net Zero and RENEWABLES were to blame | MGUY Australia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ed8JLg92zGw
They’ll blame it on global warming.
Spanish power generation has moved from coal and oil to
22.5% Natural Gas
22% Wind
20% Nuclear
15% Solar
Weather can highly influence Wind and Solar (36.6%).
https://www.iea.org/countries/spain/electricity
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/spain-power-outage-portugal-2025-cause-mystery/
To Summarize:
1. Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has said: “All the necessary measures will be taken to ensure that this does not happen again.”
2. Sánchez had said Monday that a problem in the wider European grid, which he called a “strong oscillation,” had been behind the outage, [B]but that was never confirmed or expounded upon by the Spanish leader or the country’s electricity providers[/B], and officials subsequently asked people to refrain from speculation.
3. REN, Portugal’s national electricity grid operator, said Monday there had been a rare atmospheric phenomenon in Spain, which it pinned on extreme temperature variations, [B]but that explanation was also never confirmed, and on Tuesday, Spain’s meteorological agency said it had not detected any “unusual meteorological or atmospheric phenomena” or unexpectedly dramatic temperature fluctuations the previous day.[/B]
Thanks for the information.
🙏
Interpretation/translation: We screwed up and haven’t found a good cover story yet!
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