Iberien Peninsular Blackout

Any thoughts/information on what happened? Was it a lack of spinning reserve?

Was it " The Portuguese operator, REN, said the outage was caused by a “rare atmospheric phenomenon”, with extreme temperature variations in Spain causing “anomalous oscillations” in very high-voltage lines."

as is written in the Guardian?

Electricity restored to 90% of Spain and most of Portugal after massive power outage | Spain | The Guardian

The Italien blackout from a few years ago had a definate cause in the tripping of interconnetors from Switzerland during a storm.

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  • I like the "the origin has been identified, she confirmed that the cause has not yet been established" quote.

    We know, but we don't ;-)

    Didn't say what the substation was doing (where's the generation?). I could still believe that it was a cyber failure (not an attack!) equivalent to some signal cable transient fault.

    It's likely to be more than one pre-cursor issue with many being latent for decades (e.g. there's a recent-ish case for a aircraft crash - Korean Air 631 - with long standing 'holes' in the operational safety)  .