Widespread power outage in Spain and Portugal

Telcos have tons of backup power. They’re required to have it.

Well, we love all kinds of tourists. Why not ones that could change the world? :)

#irony

4 years ago this almost happened:

https://gridradar.net/en/blog/post/underfrequency_january_20...

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/day-europes-power-grid-almost...

https://www.acer.europa.eu/news/continental-europe-electrici...

I remember it because power went out in at least 1/3 of Romania back then.

Yeah we only have telecoms and unreliable at times. If power doesnt comeback soon that too will fail.

Apparently a local grid overload near France and a cascading failure down the Spanish network, but radio and newspapers don’t agree on root cause. Of course there is a lot of noise.

For instance, one reporter asked one of the government flunkies whether it could be a cyberattack and they turned his noncommittal “maybe, we don’t know” into “government says cyberattack may be ongoing”.

Be careful of idiot reporters out there.

Edit: I’m listening to another radio interview where they are outlining the plans to bring online Portuguese dams and thermal generators over the next few hours, progressively unplugging from the Spanish supply (fortunately we have enough of those, apparently).

It should take 3-4 hours to get everything balanced with only national supplies, and they will restore power from North to South.