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From: Martin Brown <'''newspam'''@nonad.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: The Spanish Grid Drop-out - recently released information.
Date: Thu, 15 May 2025 11:11:05 +0100
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On 15/05/2025 01:20, Carlos E.R. wrote:
> On 2025-05-14 22:45, Joe Gwinn wrote:
>> On Wed, 14 May 2025 21:07:21 +0200, "Carlos E.R."
>> <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:
>>
>>> On 2025-05-10 18:46, Bill Sloman wrote:
>>>> One of my LinkedIn contacts - an IEEE contact in this case - posted 
>>>> some
>>>> new data on LinkedIn, from a "Simon Gallagher, Managing Director at UK
>>>> Networks Services | CEng | FIET | FEI | MBA "
>>>
>>>
>>> Today the ministry said that they have ruled out a hacking of the REE,
>>> but not in other places. And that it originated in Granada, Badajoz and
>>> Sevilla (loss of generation).
>>>
>>> Spanish:
>>>
>>> <https://www.eldiario.es/economia/aagesen-avanza-desconexiones-generacion-apagon-empezaron-granada-badajoz-sevilla_1_12297171.html>
> 
> ...
> 
>>> (... continues on the link)
>>
>> The Times of London published an article today:
>>
>> .<https://www.thetimes.com/world/europe/article/blackout-risk-was-highlighted-two-years-before-spains-grid-went-down-lzvxdxvzf>
> 
> pay wall.
> 
> Disabling javascript allows reading 4 paragraphs.
> 
> 
> Anyway, government denies that a risk of total blackout had been 
> highlighted on any report.

You trust your government *not* to lie about such things? How quaint!!

It conflicts with this popular media source and other tech sources:

https://www.surinenglish.com/spain/the-government-known-since-january-from-red-20250506082807-nt.html

Only the date when they were warned varies with the source.

-- 
Martin Brown