Re: Gran Apagón - Electricity (not) in Spain

On 01/05/2025 21:13, 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.

 I should say, although too late, that it should be "Gran Apagón" :-)

Sorry about that. I remember the phrase from my astronomy days when the Gran Canary were persuaded to go completely dark for one night only so that the Isaac Newton telescope on its peak could do something special.
It gave everyone there an opportunity to see a truly dark sky.
Links to it back in 1985 are now very thin on the ground. An article celebrating 10th anniversary is the best I can find in English page 31. (sorry its very big)
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Martin Brown