Blackouts Update: A Race Against the Sun in Spain Now
This set of insane energy policies is being imposed by Socialists upon the industrialized West. Clearly, the cascading blackouts in Spain and Portugal today were caused by insufficient synchronous grid inertia (SGI.). Californians for Green Nuclear Power (CGNP) has been protesting a similar set of insane energy policies being pursued in sun-rich California since about 2010. For a nontechnical introduction regarding the importance of SGI, please see our most popular March 4, 2024 GreenNUKE article, "Why is Grid Inertia Important?" https://greennuke.substack.com/p/why-is-grid-inertia-important The 63 notes provide additional details, most notably a link to a 2018 ERCOT paper regarding the importance of SGI for grid stability. -
Bloomberg’s Javier Blas reports that, prior to Monday’s blackout hitting, Spain’s grid was generating power mainly with wind and solar, and very little spinning baseload generation, which in Spain is mainly provided by natural gas. At the moment the blackout occurred, wind/solar accounted for 78% of all active generation, nuclear another 11.7%, and natu…
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