(04-30-2025, 06:27 AM)ArMaP Wrote: I don't think it was a scalability issue, as Spain was using 100% renewable sources a few days before without any problem, until now the explanation I find more likely is the one I posted above, that the newer solar power plants were connected to the grid without having good or correctly configured inverters.
Yeah, most people's reliability scale for nationwide power generation for first-world countries isn't measured in days, I believe it was 12 days since it went full green?
If it were scalable as configured, it wouldn't have failed in 12 days after going full green. Respectfully...
This might work for the more tolerant Portugal and Spain...
You've figured out the problem, yet none of the green energy engineers at REN could anticipate a potential problem? Seems like a disconnect.
Why were the first words "we don't know the cause"?
Why didn't they have "good" or correctly configured inverters?
Was all of Europe that close, or is this just sensationalistic journalism?
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Quote: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…
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Renewables don’t risk blackouts, said the media. But they did and they do. The physics are simple. And now, as blackouts in Spain strand people in elevators, jam traffic, and ground flights, it’s clear that too little “inertia” due to excess solar resulted in system collapse.
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