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From: Martin Brown <'''newspam'''@nonad.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Grand Apagon - Electricity (not) in Spain
Date: Sun, 4 May 2025 16:38:58 +0100
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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.
>>>>
>>>> There is a regulation that says that every building will have to 
>>>> install some solar panels. I don't know when is the limit.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I suspect the pain hasn't been great enough to force them to
>>>>> take their medicine?
>>>>
>>>> Sorry, I don't understand this sentence. :-?
>>>
>>> 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...
>>
>> Too early. It will be months before we know what actually happened, 
>> and this before anybody can think what can be done about it.
>>
> 
> 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.


-- 
Martin Brown