The massive cuts that affect Spain and Portugal are reminding people that for whatever reason, the power grid collapses in modern society. [emphasis, links added]
From supermarket checkout to air traffic control systems, everything stopped. Railway transport on the Iberian Peninsula was paralyzed for several hours. On the road, traffic lights malfunctioned, causing huge jam, and in Madrid, the metro closed the station.
Mobile phones and internet networks crashed, and stores closed when electronic farming failed.
The governments of these two countries are clearly pronounced by little by little, and there are no obvious emergency plans.
Rumors about cyberattacks have been discounted, and experts point out that improper reliance on solar energy has made the grid less elastic to shocks compared to gas and coal-fired generators.
The UK is particularly at risk as it shifts it to renewable energy, part of the government’s decarbonization by 2030 and is heavily dependent on imported electricity.
In January, during anti-environmental periods without sunshine or wind, power outages were avoided as Norway’s electricity went all the way to the 450-mile-mile interconnector.
Without it, the country may have suffered a cascading blackout similar to Spain and Portugal. Who said that such help will continue?
There is resentment in Norway, a country accustomed to cheap and abundant energy, facing higher bills to bail the UK, but the Oslo government violated green energy policies.
Energy Minister Ed Miliband has been revealing criticism of his net zero strategy lately. He claimed that “fossil fuels simply cannot provide us with the safety or affordability we need.”
But seek to eliminate their safety and affordability from our power generation within five years. Is the impact on more renewable energy mobile grids correctly considered?
In the next three years of closure of aging nuclear power plants, delays in building new nuclear power plants and increased electricity, the UK will face a tightening point around 2028.
Opportunities for wind, solar and other renewable energy fill the gap.
People rely on governments to keep the lights started, but as we have seen in Spain and Portugal, the impact goes far beyond that. The opposition to the politicians that make it happen will be huge.
Top image of passengers stranded electrical rails in Valencia. Sky News/YouTube Screenshot
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