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Posted on 04/29/2025 4:51:43 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
On April 16, 2025, Spain celebrated a green energy triumph. Just six days later, the lights went out across the entire country.
April 16: Spain’s first weekday of 100% renewable power In a historic achievement, Spain’s national grid was powered entirely by renewable energy on Tuesday, April 16 – the first time this has ever happened on a weekday.
Between 10:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m., wind, solar, and hydro met 100 per cent of mainland electricity demand, according to Red Eléctrica (cited by PV Magazine).
At 11:15 a.m., wind and solar alone produced 100.63 per cent of demand.
April 22: The Iberian Peninsula goes dark But just six days later, on April 22 at 12:35 p.m., Spain and Portugal experienced one of their largest-ever blackouts.
The power cut also affected parts of France, Andorra, Belgium, and the Netherlands, as the Iberian grid disconnected from the wider European network (ENTSO-E).
According to Red Eléctrica, a “very strong oscillation” in the grid triggered the disconnection. Portugal’s REN blamed “extreme temperature variations” that disrupted high-voltage power lines (cited by Gulf Insider). Read more about the “atmospheric induced vibration” here.
Power restoration began quickly, but the sudden collapse sent shockwaves through the peninsula.
(Excerpt) Read more at euroweeklynews.com ...
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They’re going to have half the population out their blowing on the windmills and shining flashlights on the solar panels.
I’m wondering if this was another solar event.
Time to rewrite the Vicki Lawrence song to fit this event, lol.
I would like to hear from a real engineer on this, but all the media gives us is phoney bureaucrats making excuses.
It’s amazing to me how slowly liberals learn. Just, amazing.
California will be next since they’re on the same stupid path.
“...It’s amazing to me how slowly liberals learn. Just, amazing....”
Well, when one starts out as a completely-endoctrinated public school imbecile, it’s not too hard to understand. /s
“The Southern European nation of 49 million people lost 15 gigawatts — equivalent to 60% of its national demand — in just five seconds.”
This demand related not supply.
“Eduardo Prieto, director of services for system operations at Spain’s electricity operator, noted two steep, back-to-back “disconnection events” before Monday’s blackout. Speaking at a press conference Tuesday, he said more investigation was needed to understand why they took place”
That would mean transmission lines tripped or some form of substation trip cascaded in less than 5 seconds into huge demand shedding.
Power industry professional here, mechanical engineering and industrial double major.
This was demand shedding they shed for as unknown reason 15 gigawatts of demand not supply the question is what tripped was it overloaded high tension lines, was it overloaded transformer stations the big boys. Either way they shed 15,000 megawatts in five seconds that means something tripped and cascaded into failure as the sudden surge of overcapacity send the phase well above 50hz to much power is as bad as too llittle you start popping safety breakers that cuts demand , spiking the overcapacity more and it snowballs into a grid wide trip case in point here.
They lost 15,000 megawatts in five seconds of demand and that’s 60% that means their total demand was 25,000 megawatts that’s rookie numbers.
Texas has Solar 29,491 MW and Wind 39,788 MW installed and committed this month for comparison.
At night we routinely hit 70% or more wind the nukes never turn off so they are always 5000 ish MW and we pay some gas turbines to spin as spinning reserves and more importantly spinning inertia which is critical for phase stability any large spinning generator mass can function as inertial reserves the nukes are, so are large synchronous wind turbines the 5 to 10 MW ones have huge inertia in those blades and rotors. During the day Texas hits 70-80% wind and solar fairly regularly especially when a front comes through and you get winds in West Texas all day and night but only a passing line of clouds at the frontal boundary.
Single point of failure? An examination of the engineering would be in order.
I would bet rapid cascading failure of distribution, they already said they had two deep back to back demand disconnects right before the total failure. 15,000 megawatts dropped off on the demand side as the generators keep feed in that would put the phase well above 50hz and pop breakers all over all at once.
——the generators——
I thought they got rid of generators
I'm no engineer...but I play one on TV. Um...the one in my head. Ahem. =;^)
I assume they got the power back on.
A guy I was working with yesterday, got a call from his friend who was in Spain at the time and was telling him about this. I just looked at him and said 3rd world country with a pipe dream of surviving on wind and solar power.
Wouldn’t it look like “demand shedding” when a line goes down? It wasn’t actual demand going down, but the inability to get supply to the people who were still demanding it.
And remember, these people claim they will send their troops to Ukraine to fight Russia.
You know, coalition of the willing, and stuff.
Not a coincidence - an assured consequence.
“Green energy” from solar and wind was always a farce and a fabrication by persons who WANT a scarcity of energy and economic growth.
REAL green energy, i.e., non-carbon based, may be obtained by widespread use of the new nuclear technology of Small Modular Nuclear Reactors, a miniaturized and self-contained electrical generation system that can be built in a manufacturing plant and hauled by rail or truck to the locality where it is needed.
Much cleaner for the environment, and takes up only a tiny fraction of the land resources devoted to either wind or solar. Safe enough, that it may be placed in the immediate proximity of where the electrical power is in demand. And only requiring a recharge of fuel about once in eight to ten years.
24/7/365 flat-out full-throttle power generation reliability, and can be expanded as needed with minimum modification.
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