A nationwide power outage hit Spain and Portugal on Monday, leaving millions without electricity. Reports indicate issues with the European electric grid. This is what we know. #EuropeNews
The 1965 failure resulted from the transmission capacity into the region being near exhausted, and then a failure on one transmission line triggering a series of other problems that blacked out the region. I’m just trying to give an example of where a failure of the sort that one might expect to potentially happen in Iberia – having little spare transmission capacity, and then hitting some sort of problem that increases stress – might result in internal blackouts in the region.
1965 was good but why not the Blackout of 2003?
The 1965 failure resulted from the transmission capacity into the region being near exhausted, and then a failure on one transmission line triggering a series of other problems that blacked out the region. I’m just trying to give an example of where a failure of the sort that one might expect to potentially happen in Iberia – having little spare transmission capacity, and then hitting some sort of problem that increases stress – might result in internal blackouts in the region.