Wednesday, 30 April 2025

Cause Of Massive European Blackout Discovered?

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Multiple European countries faced widespread blackouts on Monday, leaving tens of millions of people in the dark.

The blackouts halted train systems, shut down communications, and rendered ATMs useless in Spain, Portugal, France, Belgium, and others.

Massive Blackout In Europe Still Ongoing…Could Last Up To One Week!

Life slowly returned to normal for the impacted areas on Tuesday.

"By 11 a.m. on Tuesday, the Spanish electrical system was functioning normally, electricity operator Red Eléctrica said," the Associated Press stated.

"Portuguese grid operator REN said power had been restored to all 6.4 million customers," it added.

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From the Associated Press:

As life began to return to normal, authorities in Spain had yet to provide further explanation for why the nation of 49 million people lost 15 gigawatts — equivalent to 60% of its national demand — in five seconds.

On Tuesday, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said the government’s priorities were restoring Spain’s electrical system and finding the causes of the blackout so that a similar event “never takes place again.”

Spanish news agency EFE reported that authorities were investigating five deaths – including three members of the same family — that could be related to the blackout.

The three relatives died in Galicia due to possible carbon monoxide inhalation from a generator, a woman died in Valencia from problems with an oxygen supply machine and another died in a fire caused by a candle in Madrid, EFE said.

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. He told journalists that more investigation was needed.

Spain’s meteorological agency, AEMET, said it hadn’t detected any “unusual meteorological or atmospheric phenomena,” and no sudden temperature fluctuations were recorded at its weather stations.

However, others have theorized the blackout was caused by an overdependence on 'green energy.'

"Six days ago, the media celebrated a significant milestone: Spain’s national grid operated entirely on renewable energy for the first time during a weekday. At 12:35 pm today local time, the lights went out across Spain and Portugal, and parts of France. Although power was quickly restored in France, it could take a week to fully restore power in Spain and Portugal," journalist Michael Shellenberger commented.

Shellenberger said "all of Europe" appeared to have been seconds away from a "continent-wide blackout."

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This is truly bananas: all of Europe appears to have been seconds away a continent-wide blackout.

The grid frequency across continental Europe plunged to 49.85 hertz — just a hair above the red-line collapse threshold.

The normal operating frequency for Europe’s power grid is 50.00 Hz, kept with an extremely tight margin of ±0.1 Hz. Anything outside ±0.2 Hz triggers major emergency actions.

If the frequency had fallen just another 0.3 Hz — below 49.5 Hz — Europe could have suffered a system-wide cascading blackout.

At that threshold, automatic protective relays disconnect major power plants, and collapse accelerates.

And it's disturbingly easy to imagine multiple scenarios where that could have occurred...

"Overdependence on solar and other renewable energy is almost surely the reason almost 60 million people in Spain and Portugal lost power yesterday," journalist Alex Berenson commented.

According to pv magazine, Spain’s grid operator Red Eléctrica fully utilized renewable energy sources across the country's peninsular system for the first time on April 16th, consisting of wind, solar, and hydro.

The massive blackout occurred less than two weeks later.


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