[Texan4Life]

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]

[tired&retired]

Thanks for the information.

🙏

Interpretation/translation: We screwed up and haven’t found a good cover story yet!

[rmlew]

Almost 2/3 of Portuguese power is variable (Hyrdo 30, Wind 27, Solar 11). Despite having a large nuclear program, 1/4 of French power is variable. There is an over reliance on variable energy. This can be mitigated to some degree with large battery banks or other forms of energy storage (thermal, gravity). And countries need energy plants with power to spare (nuclear, geothermal, gas, coal, oil) to modulate the grid. If we want to move away from coal, oil, and even natural gas, we would need heavily invest in nuclear and geothermal. I am not opposed to Solar and Wind, but these need to be paired with large battery storage facilities using non-lithium batteries.