BREAKING: Massive -- really, massive -- electricity outage hits Spain, which large part of the country suffering blackouts (including Madrid and Barcelona). Data from Spain's national grid shows a lost of >10 GW of demand, from ~26GW to ~12GW in a few seconds. Reason unknonw.

UPDATE: Spain / Portugal blackout. Very little progress to restoring power in Spain. Power load is running at ~11.3 GW (compared to ~25 GW at this time). Now, all power is coming from solar / wind (plus a little hydro and French flows). Spinning units virtually at zero.

It's a race against the sunset to restore power in Spain. In about four hours, Spain will lose ~1/3 of its current electricity generation (sunset is ~9pm Madrid time). Spanish national grid is trying to reactivate (black start) as much spinning generation before that.

Before the outage hit, Spain was running its grid with very little dispatchable spinning generation, and therefore no much inertia. Solar PV/thermal + wind: ~78% Nuclear: 11.5% Co-generation: 5% Gas-fired: ~3% (less than 1GW) Snapshot at 12.30pm local time (outage was 12.35pm)

UPDATE: Spain / Portugal blackout. It's ~5 hours since the blackout started. Load has risen a tiny bit to ~12 GW in Spain (a recovery of ~1.5 GW since 12.35pm local time when it started). The grid operator still has another >10 GW to recover. Sunset in Madrid is in ~3 hours.

UPDATE: Spain / Portugal blackout. Spanish grid operators says it has restored 99% of the power. Still, silence about the causes of the worst blackout in living memory in Europe, which affected > 55 million people across mostly two countries and lasted more than half-a-day.

BREAKING: Spanish grid operator just offered the first (but tentative) blackout timeline:

Let's call it: The first big blackout of the green electricity era (Below my notes from the conference call the Spanish grid operator held earlier today with reporters. I added extra information from my initial post, and corrected a location: it was the south-west). 🧵1/2

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🔌⚡️ The Spanish government released at ~11pm yesterday its 182-page report on the April 28th electricity blackout. Long passages are heavily redacted (including full blacked out pages). Still, this crucial paragraph at end of page 96 and beginning of page 97 is crystal clear:

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