Widespread power outage in Spain and Portugal • Hacker News Board

Re: Widespread power outage in Spain and Portugal

#21

Post by suslik » Mon, Apr 28, 2025, 11:21 AM UTC

I'm in Valencia and it is indeed happening here. A street parade under my windows continues nonetheless.

Re: Widespread power outage in Spain and Portugal

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Post by rambambram » Mon, Apr 28, 2025, 11:22 AM UTC

suslik wrote: post #21

I'm in Valencia and it is indeed happening here. A street parade under my windows continues nonetheless.

How are you posting this?

Re: Widespread power outage in Spain and Portugal

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Post by djuc » Mon, Apr 28, 2025, 11:22 AM UTC

i had an appointment in Barcelona, but can only guess it’s not safe on the roads

Re: Widespread power outage in Spain and Portugal

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Post by rcarmo » Mon, Apr 28, 2025, 11:22 AM UTC

mrtksn wrote: post #20

Here's a "real time" map of electricity production and flow between countries: https://app.electricitymaps.com/map/72h/hourly Would be interesting to see if it will register here.

It should take 72 hours to update

Re: Widespread power outage in Spain and Portugal

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Post by throw0101b » Mon, Apr 28, 2025, 11:22 AM UTC

As of:

    Mon 28 Apr 2025 07:22:00 EDT
    Mon 28 Apr 2025 11:22:00 UTC

this is breaking just minutes ago:

* https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c9wpq8xrvd9t (rolling updates)

* http://archive.is/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20...

* https://www.rte.ie/news/world/2025/0428/1509881-spain-portug...

The Spanish national operator:

* https://www.ree.es/en

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Eléctrica_de_España

Re: Widespread power outage in Spain and Portugal

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Post by suslik » Mon, Apr 28, 2025, 11:23 AM UTC

rambambram wrote: post #22

suslik wrote: post #21

I'm in Valencia and it is indeed happening here. A street parade under my windows continues nonetheless.

How are you posting this?

Mobile internet still works.

Re: Widespread power outage in Spain and Portugal

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Post by ifwinterco » Mon, Apr 28, 2025, 11:23 AM UTC

rvz wrote: post #9

A full nationwide power outage affecting not one but three [0] countries. Sounds like a major infrastructure risk given that it is possible for more than one country to experience a full loss of power. EDIT: Andorra is also affected, so that is three. [0] https://www.lavanguardia.com/vida/20250428/10624908/caida-ge...

The whole European grid is essentially connected at this point, it's a simple trade of resiliency for efficiency. People just forget about the resiliency part until something goes wrong