Nationwide power outages knock Spain, Portugal offline
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Good news,
the cause was identified by the Portugal Grid Operator and it wasn't sabotage (see Update in the article)Due to extreme temperature variations in the interior of Spain, there were anomalous oscillations in the very high voltage lines (400 kV), a phenomenon known as induced atmospheric vibration. These oscillations caused synchronisation failures between the electrical systems, leading to successive disturbances across the interconnected European network.
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Good news,
the cause was identified by the Portugal Grid Operator and it wasn't sabotage (see Update in the article)Due to extreme temperature variations in the interior of Spain, there were anomalous oscillations in the very high voltage lines (400 kV), a phenomenon known as induced atmospheric vibration. These oscillations caused synchronisation failures between the electrical systems, leading to successive disturbances across the interconnected European network.
Isn't the sun doing CMEs and other funky stuff for the last several weeks, now? I wonder if that's contributory.
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Isn't the sun doing CMEs and other funky stuff for the last several weeks, now? I wonder if that's contributory.
Doesn't seem like it. I think only "X-Class" solar flairs have a chance of getting through the magnetic field and causing power outages and there hasn't been anything above C for the last week.
https://www.spaceweatherlive.com/en/help/what-are-solar-flares.html
*More likely system fault, human error (rip) or cyberattack.
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