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Old 29-04-2025, 10:43   #11
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Re: Mass power outage in Spain and Portugal

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Originally Posted by Pierre View Post
Nothing is certain as yet, and we'll probably not know for some time. I heard from one report that 50GW just disappeared from the grid. Which is massive, I don't even know how that's possible.
I expect that to achieve that effect would require parts of the core transmission network shutting down, chaotically, all at once. No single power generator produces anything like 50MW - the single biggest station in the UK (Drax) can produce a little under 4MW, and only then if it brought all its decommissioned coal burning capacity back online.
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