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From: "Tom Del Rosso" <fizzbintuesday@that-google-mail-domain.com>
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Subject: Re: Grand Apagon - Electricity (not) in Spain
Date: Fri, 9 May 2025 02:20:09 -0400
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Martin Brown wrote:
> Spain suffered a very spectacular near total loss of its national grid
> yesterday taking parts of France and all of Portugal down with it.
> This is an unprecedented failure of a supergrid system by cascade
> failure.
> It seems likely they had got the effect of widespread solar PV has on
> load shedding wrong (much like happened in the UK) and so it failed
> completely. Two events a second apart delivered the coup de grace.

It looks like they spent a lot more effort simulating climate than they 
did simulating the grid system.

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