Re: Grand Apagon - Electricity (not) in Spain

On 04/05/2025 09:23, Jeroen Belleman wrote:

On 5/4/25 02:29, Carlos E.R. wrote:

On 2025-05-04 00:15, Don Y wrote:

On 5/3/2025 2:59 PM, Carlos E.R. wrote:

But, you can set up smaller PV installations (hundreds of panels)
on commercial buildings, "cover" parking areas, etc.   You don't
get the same economies of scale as you would with 1,000 panels
but 100+ panels on every city block makes a lot of power available
where it is used.

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There is a regulation that says that every building will have to install some solar panels. I don't know when is the limit.
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I suspect the pain hasn't been great enough to force them to
take their medicine?

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Sorry, I don't understand this sentence. :-?

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Their "poor planning/engineering" hasn't COST them sufficiently for them
to actually DO something about the problem!  Perhaps now, with an entire
nation *pissed*, they will decide they can't just wave their hands
at the problem...

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Too early. It will be months before we know what actually happened, and this before anybody can think what can be done about it.
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 I have this suspicion that power engineers know very well what
happened. Nobody wants to be the person to tell, because anyone
who does will be the scapegoat. Spain's politicians were very
clear: They are looking for someone to punish.

+1
When from an engineering point of view it looks like it is the politicians who should be flagellated for this major SNAFU.
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Martin Brown