EuroOutage?

[lucklucky]

In that day i lost power like by 1133 got back around 2125, cellphones depending on company and nearby antenna, mine worked until 16-1700, but cell internet only until 1300 or so and with increasingly difficulty until then. The official powerline website wnt down right at 1133 so much for their management, only by 1900 got a government message...very bad management overall.

I am still waiting for RETAC21 and Sunday indemnity!

 

Edit to add: google.pt failed shortly after blackout started but .com obviously worked until the internet went down.

Edited June 1, 2025 by lucklucky

[RETAC21]

58 minutes ago, lucklucky said:

In that day i lost power like by 1133 got back around 2125, cellphones depending on company and nearby antenna, mine worked until 16-1700, but cell internet only until 1300 or so and with increasingly difficulty until then. The official powerline website wnt down right at 1133 so much for their management, only by 1900 got a government message...very bad management overall.

I am still waiting for RETAC21 and Sunday indemnity!

 

Edit to add: google.pt failed shortly after blackout started but .com obviously worked until the internet went down.

Hey, complain to Sunday, I had to work until 20:00!!

Was there a rush to save all the beers from warming up like over here?

It was a major clusterfuck brought about by our idiotic government that apparently was trying to make a show that all the energy in Spain could be generated by solar and wind and caused massive instability that eventually caused everything to fail, because the safeguards were overriden. When you put idiots in command, you get disasters as a result.

[lucklucky]

😄

Not that i noticed. Basically people reunited and made improptum parties/reunions. I was at home alone and since was an hot day i closed all kitchen doors and window blinds, it went dark.

[seahawk]

Official report is out. In the end as expected. 

https://news.sky.com/story/cause-of-massive-power-cut-that-plunged-spain-and-portugal-into-chaos-revealed-13384965

[JWB]

Or this:

 

 

[rmgill]

What do Greens and Socialists use for light? 
 

Candles. 

[Ivanhoe]

11 hours ago, JWB said:

Or this:

 

 

I saw this in a movie, once;

 

[sunday]

Another report, presented by the utilities, pdf in Spanish:

https://aelec.es/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/20250623_InformeBlackout.pdf

CCGT: combined cycle with gas turbine power plant

[sunday]

The American NERC also has a report, with recommendations for the US system:

https://www.ferc.gov/news-events/news/presentation-iberian-peninsula-blackout-april-2025

Edited July 1, 2025 by sunday

[Ivanhoe]

1 hour ago, sunday said:

The American NERC also has a report, with recommendations for the US system:

https://www.ferc.gov/news-events/news/presentation-iberian-peninsula-blackout-april-2025

Once again showing that AC-AC interconnects can propagate instability. 

The rest of America likes to deride Texas for "not having interconnects" but Texas chose to limit interconnects to DC-DC with grids that were willing to cooperate with that approach. 

[sunday]

Reports are starting to come

Full factual report here.

[Ivanhoe]

Those freakin' timestamps...