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FWIW, UK and Belgium were totally untouched by this, there's one crazy media organisation in Portugal that just added some random countries to the list because... the story wasn't big enough already?
But Texas isn't even part of the national power grid!
But seriously, I (from Central Europe) barely know what a power outage looks like. I mean, we were without power for a whole 5 minutes about 8 years ago. It was pretty cool - the entire street, everything around us, in complete calm darkness.
I was thinking once about buying a UPS... just in case, but honestly, the batteries would most likely die in 10-15 years without being needed even once.
which country/region is that?
if you're comfortable sharing ofc
Afaik Texas has the most power outtages of all states in the US and far more outtages than any European country. So I wouldn't call that a strength.
Google gives me all kinds of different answers to "what state has the most power outages". Texas is usually up there, but so are California, Maine, Alaska, Mississippi, Kentucky, West Virginia, etc.
It's not clear what a "Texas power outage" means, though. The entire state? Never happens. A couple city blocks in El Paso for an hour? Wouldn't surprise me.
The worst states appear to be the ones that are (a) poor (MS, for example), (b) have lots of natural disasters, and/or (c) large geographically because statistics.
There's very little more annoying than having a redundant failover system that immediately fails on failover. You're sighing in relief for the failover and then it's a double fuck when it also fails.
What? Texas power grid design is dumb and basic. It's only worse from arrogance and incompetence.
That's irrelevant to this topic. You can gtfo now.
It happens a little more often for me, last time was like 4ish years ago, one of the substations got triggered by thermal protection, took about an hour to get back.
But a whole country wide outage in Belgium last happened in 1982.
I read it was Commiefornia that started the trend of buying large condo unit methane generators laid on a concrete slab in the backyard. The story was that electric trellises had frequent car accidents being built closely alongside the roads.
No idea.
Could be a Large Scale Cyber Attack.
Can't hear you over the sound of my electricity.
But if we're saying 5 countries lost power at once like this post seems to be, I'll take a lecture on how great centralization is with nothing more than a hysterical laugh
There actually was another Level 2 alert this afternoon.
Level 3 was when Spain got cut off.
Very stable these days.
Power is back, came back 1 hour ago to my city. Finally.
No UPS could resist such downtime!
I included the website but it was fake news.
Apparently it was just Portugal, Spain and a part of France.
All good. Power is being restored gradually in Portugal and I believe in Spain too. 👌
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To explain further guys, we're told that the issue was indeed the interconnection between other countries. It looks like we had to cut ties for now until it stabilizes and so we can power up our country.
Such power downtimes never occurred to this extent. Even a local outage rarely takes almost 12h like this one, unless there's a fire close or heavy rain. Still very rare.
Cutting Edge basement DC
Europe's power grid is much more reliable then the US one. Multiple failovers in most regions. And we don't have tornados in Europe.
lol
European exceptionalism is today as American exceptionalism was in the early 2000s.
"We knocked out half of the continent at once... don't worry, we're still better!"
I understand that the problem in Spain was a connection point in France that disconnected and caused this problem.
The outages of individual power lines or areas can be better absorbed in Europe. What is wrong with this statement?
They are hosting in Spain? I thought the power outage only affected Spain and Portugal
In Italy but I think the disconnection affected him
Prime minister of Spain told the media that their Spanish based Electricity supplier had a problem in their own network. I thin they are called something with RED. I guess France dropped the connection to Spain after the voltage and frequency reached a critical level
Edit: from a news source:
Are you in Lisbon or next to Lisbon?
I didn't want to be that guy while people were without power but since it's better now:
lol eu
Are you talking about your private ups or an ups for your DC?