What is the matter with the title of the sub? Why do we suddenly have our flag there? Probably a Rex conspiracy
You bet they are
Are they STILL cooking? It happened almost 20 hours ago and they couldn’t come up with some random excuse?
Here is a brief list of excuses for your government to adopt:
1. A seagull hit the power line and got fried in the process. It tasted like chicken
2. A drunk Barry peed on a lamppost in Benidorm and that shortcircuited the whole grid
3. Some unknown well adapted citizens following their cultural customs stole the wrong copper wires
4. The intern took a nap on the switch
5. Aliens
You can PM for more plausible excuses
One thing we know for sure: “Dimitir es un nombre ruso”
(Edit: spelling)
My theory is ~~Catalan~~ Andalusian Separatists
Honestly, the only valid reason to lie about it would be if it was the russians and they don’t want to disclose that for some strategic reasons. If it was an honest technical or human error, why lie?
They just have to say the french are responsible, are they stupid or what?
Why so skeptical Pedrito?
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Being dependent on foreign energy and the whole system actually being quite fragile?
Cook what? Everyone knows it was Spain’s fault.
They could just drop the truth and everyone would call it a lie anyway lol
To be honest, the answer makes sense. The question was the 15GW that dissapeared from the input, and there is where the REE technicians will have to look for, but the process makes sense.
15GW of the input dissapear -> The buffer system is not enough to buffer the requirement of energy and protect the network -> The security system shuts down the network to protect the infrastructure.
During this event France does their part shutting down the connection to avoid being dragged along with us and also other european countries, a logical thing to do. Portugal has no choice and comes down with us.
I heard that like, the grid just suddenly lost power. Somehow. Like, the voltage/etc just suddenly dipped then the every system on the grid went “OH FUCK” and tripped out.
The only thing I can think of is the mother of all shorts and if that is actually what happened the fact that we don’t have footage of that is a crying shame for humanity.
The thing is… there is 99% chance they KNOW what happened.
There is an article in one of the most read economic newspapers from january that says that the increase of renowable energy means higher swings of power for the grid, meaning risks of mass power outages.
The auditor of Red Eléctrica Española said the same in their annual accounts.
To make things worse, they have been “making experiments” this past month by shutting 5 of the 7 nuclear plants (which give a regular power amount of power without the swings things like solar or wind power cause) to show that “we don’t need them”).
I am very much pro renewable energy, but nuclear is the greenest energy and if you want a renewable energy based power system, you need to invest in the grid.
Spoilers:
The cauldron is empty because this has nothing to do with conspiracy theories, they are just plainly incompetent
If you wanna know the truth all you have to do is visit Greece and ask a taxi driver.
I thought João’s excuse was a brilliant word salad:
“Due to extreme temperature variations in the interior of Spain, there were anomalous oscillations in the very high voltage lines (400 kV), a phenomenon known as ‘induced atmospheric vibration’. These oscillations caused synchronisation failures between the electrical systems, leading to successive disturbances across the interconnected European network.”
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The grid took a siesta
What is the matter with the title of the sub? Why do we suddenly have our flag there? Probably a Rex conspiracy
You bet they are
Are they STILL cooking? It happened almost 20 hours ago and they couldn’t come up with some random excuse?
Here is a brief list of excuses for your government to adopt:
1. A seagull hit the power line and got fried in the process. It tasted like chicken
2. A drunk Barry peed on a lamppost in Benidorm and that shortcircuited the whole grid
3. Some unknown well adapted citizens following their cultural customs stole the wrong copper wires
4. The intern took a nap on the switch
5. Aliens
You can PM for more plausible excuses
One thing we know for sure: “Dimitir es un nombre ruso”
(Edit: spelling)
My theory is ~~Catalan~~ Andalusian Separatists
Honestly, the only valid reason to lie about it would be if it was the russians and they don’t want to disclose that for some strategic reasons. If it was an honest technical or human error, why lie?
They just have to say the french are responsible, are they stupid or what?
Why so skeptical Pedrito?
[removed]
Being dependent on foreign energy and the whole system actually being quite fragile?
Cook what? Everyone knows it was Spain’s fault.
They could just drop the truth and everyone would call it a lie anyway lol
To be honest, the answer makes sense. The question was the 15GW that dissapeared from the input, and there is where the REE technicians will have to look for, but the process makes sense.
15GW of the input dissapear -> The buffer system is not enough to buffer the requirement of energy and protect the network -> The security system shuts down the network to protect the infrastructure.
During this event France does their part shutting down the connection to avoid being dragged along with us and also other european countries, a logical thing to do. Portugal has no choice and comes down with us.
I heard that like, the grid just suddenly lost power. Somehow. Like, the voltage/etc just suddenly dipped then the every system on the grid went “OH FUCK” and tripped out.
The only thing I can think of is the mother of all shorts and if that is actually what happened the fact that we don’t have footage of that is a crying shame for humanity.
The thing is… there is 99% chance they KNOW what happened.
There is an article in one of the most read economic newspapers from january that says that the increase of renowable energy means higher swings of power for the grid, meaning risks of mass power outages.
The auditor of Red Eléctrica Española said the same in their annual accounts.
To make things worse, they have been “making experiments” this past month by shutting 5 of the 7 nuclear plants (which give a regular power amount of power without the swings things like solar or wind power cause) to show that “we don’t need them”).
I am very much pro renewable energy, but nuclear is the greenest energy and if you want a renewable energy based power system, you need to invest in the grid.
Spoilers:
The cauldron is empty because this has nothing to do with conspiracy theories, they are just plainly incompetent
If you wanna know the truth all you have to do is visit Greece and ask a taxi driver.
I thought João’s excuse was a brilliant word salad:
“Due to extreme temperature variations in the interior of Spain, there were anomalous oscillations in the very high voltage lines (400 kV), a phenomenon known as ‘induced atmospheric vibration’. These oscillations caused synchronisation failures between the electrical systems, leading to successive disturbances across the interconnected European network.”
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/apr/28/spain-and-portugal-power-outage-cause-cyber-attack-electricity
Russian hack 100%
What lie? If they didnt say anything
I a pretty sure this was orks doing.
But this might be just my polish paranoia.
You say that, but my smart meter lost connection yesterday and hasn’t come back online again.
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