How did Spain’s electricity grid collapse?

Net deadly: Europe’s blackouts are a warning for Americans - Washington Examiner

A massive blackout crippled Spain and Portugal on Monday, grounding flights, halting transport, and leaving millions without power. The cause was “unclear,” the New York Times reported, with “no evidence of a cyberattack.” As Spanish officials urged citizens to stay off the roads, European leaders said they were attempting to ascertain the cause of the mysterious outage. “We do not yet have conclusive information on the reasons for this [power] …

Spain’s disastrous blackouts are proof of the follies of net zero

And Britain will be next if we carry on with Ed Miliband’s crazy eco crusade

Why Spain’s unprecedented power collapse could happen again

The massive outage this week raises concerns about the resilience of infrastructure in Europe and implications for moves away from fossil fuels.

Just a few hours without electricity have served to reveal our enormous vulnerability derived from the energy dependence of the current way of life. At the restlessness of those hours joins now the one that can cause disinformation, either in the form of malicious bulls, well derived from the complexity of the electrical system. Spain’s electricity network system has never failed in this way, and perhaps that is why it has not been paid the atte…

Irish Examiner view: Blackout should remind us to prepare

On Monday, Spain’s power grid lost 15GW, or the equivalent of 60% of its national demand, in just five seconds

An electrical “frequency shock” caused the grid to collapse, dragging out the Spanish and Portuguese system in a few minutes. The blackout, the possible causes, the answers, and the consequences in 10 answers.