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2025 Iberia Blackout Report [pdf]

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193 points leymed | 1 comments | 23 Jun 25 18:34 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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fuoqi ◴[23 Jun 25 20:44 UTC] No.44359889[source]▶
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pdpi ◴[23 Jun 25 21:05 UTC] No.44360080[source]▶
What I'm reading from that quote is that the issue wasn't renewables as such, but an issue of power generation reacting too quickly and too intensely to price fluctuations. "Renewables" only matter insofar as they're the sort of generation that, under the current regulatory regime, get to react to those pricing changes.
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baq ◴[23 Jun 25 21:33 UTC] No.44360379[source]▶
The report goes to great lengths to avoid certain words or phrases. The market failed here, it didn’t price in risk of grid collapse correctly.
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mslansn[dead post] ◴[24 Jun 25 00:15 UTC] No.44361562[source]▶
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1. xwolfi ◴[24 Jun 25 00:23 UTC] No.44361610{3}[source]▶
Except to point out that it's not nice that renewables arrive at random prices in the grid and start crapping all around it until they disappear when expensive again.

The stability of a nuclear plant vs the instability of a solar far when a cloud passes over.