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.

  • Hello Roger:

    Your referenced article is excellent. 

    It should be noted that here in the US the price paid for electrical power is controlled at the State Level and not at the Federal level.

    As an example in Massachusetts one may pay $0.23 per kWh, while here in Florida it is about $0.11 per kWh.

    Peter Brooks

    Palm Bay