'No big deal" Just an atmospheric phenomenon' some outages green energy absolved

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Without that French help, the frequency of the peninsular network (which should always be 50 Hz exact) began to drop quickly. The frequency is like the heartbeat of the network: if it falls too much, the systems understand that the patient (the network) is collapsing and automatically disconnected so as not to self-destruct. Thus, in just five seconds, the solar and wind farms were turned off —very sensitive to frequency variations—, 15 GW of power was lost suddenly (60% of all the electricity generated at that time), and the network could not take it anymore: it was It collapsed completely, showing the Redeia Platform (REE) a “0 MW” nationwide. That does not mean that all the turbines were physically turned off, but there was no generator synchronized at the common frequency of 50 Hz. It was, for practical purposes, a country off.

When you're currently running on 60% solar and you lose 60% of you generating capacity at once...

Everyone is learning about the faults of vast renewable energy systems the require a 50 Hz synchronization that are susceptible to...

an electrical resonance: electronic inverters, which synchronize current, can sometimes be amplified between them if a small voltage alteration (for example, due to clouds, strong wind or a slight failure) extends like an echo to all devices, causing widespread oscillations.

Let's see if it happens again. If it's due to the vast number of localized inverters causing a resonance that leads to amplified oscilations this should keep happening every time it goes heavy renewable. Data says there wasn't a weather or wind event, the convenient causes.

And if it's not weather induced or magnetosphere or ionophere induced, it's induced by a resonance of multiple inverters in close proximity feeding off themselves and falling into a sci-fi feedback loop.

Hate to say it, because I support renewable energy and moving away from fossil fuels, but this seems all too plausible if you only know enough to sound smart repeating it. And kinda funny in a way Al Gore could never have predicted.

It can be probably blamed on green energy. Or at least the touchiness of its transfer system.