Re: Grand Apagon - Electricity (not) in Spain

On Wed, 30 Apr 2025 19:55:53 +0100, Martin Brown
<'''newspam'''@nonad.co.uk> wrote:

On 29/04/2025 22:33, Carlos E.R. wrote:

On 2025-04-29 14:24, Martin Brown wrote:

>

Spain suffered a very spectacular near total loss of its national grid
yesterday taking parts of France and all of Portugal down with it.
This is an unprecedented failure of a supergrid system by cascade
failure.

 
(total loss in the peninsula)
 
For those that can follow spoken Spanish, there has just been a detailed
explanation on Radio Cadena Ser. Aimar Bretos interviewed Jorge Morales
on Hora 25:
 
«Director of Próxima Energía and expert in the energy sector.
Entrepreneur and industrial engineer from the Polytechnic University of
Madrid, he has more than 20 years of experience in the Spanish
electricity sector.»

>
Hi Carlos,
>
For those of us that can't follow spoken Spanish at all please can you
precis what he said was the root cause of failure? Options seem to be:
>
1. France-Spain interconnect failure
2. Cyber attack
3. Human Error
4. Exceptionally "Rare" atmospheric phenomena
5. Flying pigs/unicorns [delete as appropriate]
6. Other
>

A major interconnect line was attacked by The Jolly Green Giant.

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