Overvoltage as a Cause: Spain's Blackout Was "the First of Its Kind"

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The collapse of the electricity grid in Spain and Portugal was triggered by overvoltage and was "the first of its kind." But what was the first domino that triggered the chain reaction and forced the system to its knees on 28 April this year is still unclear, as the head of the investigation commission, the Austrian Klaus Kaschnitz, said at a lecture in Vienna on Monday evening. Renewables and Spain's special role in the electricity grid of the …

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In April, the lights went out in Spain. For the first time, the trigger for the large-scale blackout was not overload but overvoltage. This is what Klaus Kaschnitz, Austrian director of the Blackout Investigation Commission, describes during a lecture.