Europe - Spain, Portugal and France major power disruptions

[Bugtownboy]

Some more -

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c175ykvjxyeo

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c209yrl3258o

[Bugtownboy]

The mystery deepens

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/h ... 41631.html

[Stinsy]

The mystery deepens

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/h ... 41631.html

I’ve seen that reported elsewhere too.

Our grid is vulnerable to lots of high-power loads switching on or off simultaneously. The rise in networked devices must surely be tempting to those with malicious intent and we always have good old incompetence to deal with.

Both the UK and Iberian anomalies really could have been caused by a large number of: EV charging points, or solar/battery inverters, or washing machines, or ovens, or anything else turning on or off at the same time.

[SimonSays]

It's not unusual to see a trip on a generation or converter station.
There's a website that shows you the trip details. I can't remember it, have failed to bookmark it and Google isn't being helpful.
Grid frequency seemed to be just fine on Sunday with the exception of the event just after 2am

[nowty]

It's not unusual to see a trip on a generation or converter station.
There's a website that shows you the trip details. I can't remember it, have failed to bookmark it and Google isn't being helpful.
Grid frequency seemed to be just fine on Sunday with the exception of the event just after 2am

If you flick through the other days in April there are several similar or even worse drops, I think that its a non story.

[dan_b]

Interesting article on grid failures

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/when-com ... gCjQ%3D%3D

Any Grid engineers on here with expert knowledge?