Comment by TheOtherHobbes
2 days ago
The Spain/Portugal blackout happened when network management failed to predict a workable source mix. Basically human error.
Political pressure is hardly a renewables problem, and is more likely to mitigate it than make it worse.
Currently we get a lot of energy by shipping it as physical cargo around the world through various unstable regions after it's produced by hostile regimes - which is not exactly a recipe for reliability.
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/investigation-into-s...
Right, they are blaming the "thermal powersources"(non-renewable) for the waveform of the grid collapsing.
They also initially said that there was "high ion flux" from the sun too.
I am not EE or in power gen but it smacks a bit more of politics than analysis.
https://www.eng-tips.com/threads/spain-and-portugal-power-gr...