US EditionInterim EU Report Blames Cascading Overvoltages for Iberian Blackout
The blackout left 60 million people without power due to cascading overvoltages, marking Europe’s most severe outage in 20 years, experts said.
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Spain’s blackout mystery solved
Spain’s biggest blackout in decades left millions across the Iberian Peninsula in the dark last April, sparking questions about whether the rapid rise of renewable energy had made the grid more fragile. But five months on, the official European investigation has ruled out the green transition as the cause – and instead points to something far more technical: a rare “cascade of overvoltage” that… Source
The massive power failure at the end of April in parts of Spain and Portugal is unprecedented. Experts want to get to the bottom of this and follow a current report based on the assumption that a gradual failure of several installations preceded the event.
Experts analysed the severe grid failure on the Iberian Peninsula at the end of April. What the previous findings mean for the safety of the European electricity supply.
The massive blackout that hit Spain and Portugal in April was the worst power outage in Europe in 20 years, experts warned in a preliminary report. It was the result of a series of power surges.
Iberian Blackout Report Comes Out Late, Fails To Name Culprits
This Friday, the European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity (Entso-E) published the long-awaited technical report on the blackout that left millions of citizens in Spain and Portugal without power on April 28. Five months have passed since the most serious power failure in Europe in two decades, and the delay in releasing the report raises suspicions. Not only because of the overwhelmingly technical nature of its conclusi…
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