Opening disclaimer: I don't know much about electricity or grid management.
I do have it on good authority (sources in these articles: here, here, here, here, and here) that renewables and grids don't work well together. When the share of electricity generation from solar and wind hit 10-20% of a given grid, problems emerge: blackouts, price hikes, volatility.
But maybe I'm wrong... I'm just a monetary guy, after all.
Knut Svanholm, a Spain resident, offered some intriguing candidates:
So, here's this bazooka of an FT piece
What triggered the frequency to fall in the first instance is not yet clear. On Tuesday, Eduardo Prieto, director of operational services at Spain’s grid operator Red Eléctrica, blamed an unexpected loss of generation in south-west Spain, home to a lot of solar plants. Other theories include electricity cable damage.
Is this the equivalent of renewable energy lab leak stuff? "It is not yet known, we don't know what happened, it's racist to blame the Chinese..."
“Sometimes in policymaking, we focus on adding more wind and solar, which is great. But you also need to add the backup,” said Javier Cavada, chief executive for Europe, the Middle East and Africa at Mitsubishi Power. However, there is always a balance between the high cost of installing new cables, and risk.
Also: confession time!
Some 55% of Spain's electricity came from solar panels around the time of the collapse... so:
- we have mechanism
- we have opportunity
- and we have the guy at the crime scene...
but did he actually pull the trigger, or was it some alien fluke?!
also, this quote is nice -- cheers to the nerds!
“The grid has been thought of as something for nerds and engineers, but that’s not the case,” said Javier Pamos Serrano at Aurora. “We have to have secure and reliable grids moving forward.”
non-paywalled: https://archive.md/rlSX0
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