28-04-2025, 17:18
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Re: Mass power outage in Spain and Portugal
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Originally Posted by Pierre
Apparently caused by "atmospheric conditions", suitably vague.
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A little more info ;
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The Portuguese grid operator REN said the Iberian blackout was due to a 'rare atmospheric phenomenon' which occurred in Spain.
It claimed that extreme temperature variations in Spain’s interior had caused ‘induced atmospheric vibration’ in the power grid.
It appears that vibrations in the power lines - which normally create the 'hum' you can hear when electricity passes through - became so bad that the entire network broke down.
REN described it as a “complex phenomenon” that could take up to a week to fix, due to the need to rebalance international electricity flows.
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