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Good news! The final ENTSO-E report into the Spain blackout is out A complex stew of different factors, but "too much solar" is simply not even among them, let alone a major component. As always: the narrative built by fossil/nuke advocates was wrong www.entsoe.eu/news/2026/03...
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Context Expert Panel Investigation Steps Information to Stakeholders Publications & Documents Contacts Summary The final report of the Expert Panel on the 28 April 2025 blackout in continental Spain and Portugal identifies the causes of the blackout and outlines recommendations to strengthen the resilience of Europe’s interconnected electricity system. It was prepared by a technical Expert Panel of 49 members, including representatives from Transmission System Operators (TSOs), Regional Coordination Centres (RCCs), ACER and National Regulatory Authorities (NRAs), and was chaired by experts from two unaffected TSOs. The investigation concludes that the blackout resulted from a combination of many interacting factors, including oscillations, gaps in voltage and reactive power control, differences in voltage regulation practices, rapid output reductions and generator disconnections in Spain, and uneven stabilisation capabilities. These factors led to fast increases of voltage and cascading generation disconnections in Spain, resulting in the blackout in continental Spain and Portugal. Based on these findings, the Expert Panel sets out recommendations addressing each of the factors identified in the report to help prevent similar events in the future. These include strengthened operational practices, improved monitoring of system behaviour and closer coordination and data exchange among power system actors. The findings of the investigation also underscore the need for regulatory frameworks to adapt in order to support the evolving nature of the power system. The 28 April blackout was a first of its kind event, and the recommendations aim to strengthen system resilience with solutions that are already technologically deployable. This blackout highlights how developments at the local level can have system-wide implications and underlines the importance of maintaining strong links between local and European system behaviour and coordination, while ensuring that market…

ENTSO-E Publishes Expert Panel Final Report on 28 April 2025 Blackout in Spain and Portugal

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What is going to happen now is that a bunch of journalists are going to Ctrl + F "solar", screenshot what they find, and without understanding what they're looking at present it under a headline that'll look something like FINAL REPORT SHOWS SOLAR WAS TO BLAME FOR DEADLY BLACKOUT APOCALYPSE
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The big talking point that emerged DURING the blackout, led in particular by Bloomberg's Javier Blas, was that over-reliance on solar resulted in low 'system inertia' (the heartbeat of the grid). Others, such as a prominent Norwegian nuke advocate, helped spread it. it was COMPLETELY WRONG
4.4.2.3 Role of Inertia Role of increasing the total system inertia This simulation aims to investigate how additional system inertia could have affected the transient evolution during the incident. For this purpose, the dynamic models of the conventional generators, turbines, and other rotating masses were modified to increase the inertia constant. After these modifications, the total system inertia increased +20 % compared to the base case. Figure 4-95 and Figure 4-96 show the Spain–France active power exchange and the frequency at the La Cereal 400kV substation for the base case (blue), the case with a +20% increase in total system inertia (green), and the PMU measurements (red). The two simulations are very similar, and only a slight delay in the loss of synchronism can be observed. These results indicate that additional system inertia had a minimal impact on the degree of system evolution in the final moments of the incident. To better understand Figure 4-96, it is worth to note that a higher inertia makes the peninsular system inject and absorb energy with the rest of Europe in a slower (and slightly stronger) way during the loss of synchronism than in the base case. This makes the transient unloading of the system higher and, therefore, the overvoltage disconnections happens before than in the base case, making the frequency evolve in a steeper way towards blackout.
The blackout in Spain has now become as difficult to talk about as the Wuhan lab leak. Just because I shared some preliminary facts about the incident, I am now being accused of spreading misinformation in the name of nuclear power. Ironically, Ketan Joshi is affiliated with "The Australia Institute", a lobby organization with a clear anti-nuclear agenda, and supported by powerful, well-funded interests. A recently published report confirms that surges were the trigger for Europe's worst blackout. This corresponds exactly to what I myself pointed out a month ago. The problem now is that some are using this report as a basis to dismiss all other significant factors in the incident. The amount of inertia in the system was right on the edge of what is acceptable according to ENTSO-E. "Hellbreese", i.e. large amounts of sun and wind, are still a contributing factor. The energy solutions that do not contribute to system support cannot therefore be exempted from all blame. A well-functioning power grid needs voltage regulation, inertia and short-circuit performance. Some think this can be solved with batteries alone. But the solutions do not exist at scale and no one yet knows which market will pay for these services.
Javier Blas @Javier Blas. 2h 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) Solar PV 17,657 MW 60.64% Wind 3,499 MW 12.02% Nuclear 3,387 MW 11.63% Solar thermal 1,498 MW 5.14% Cogeneration and waste 1,356 MW 4.66% Combined cycle 982 MW 3.37% 95 503 1.3K 180K TM

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Vampire Crawlers: The Turbo Wildcard from Vampire Survivors arrives April 21 gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/vamp…

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Vampire Crawlers: The Turbo Wildcard from Vampire Survivors arrives April 21

Will lightning strike twice for developer poncle? We're going to find out when Vampire Crawlers: The Turbo Wildcard from Vampire Survivors releases April 21st.
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OpenTTD devs clarify store changes with Transport Tycoon Deluxe re-release as Atari contribute server funding gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/open…

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OpenTTD devs clarify store changes with Transport Tycoon Deluxe re-release as Atari contribute server funding

The OpenTTD developers have released a statement to clarify some confusion and misinformation on the Transport Tycoon Deluxe re-release from Atari.
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Looking the reviews on Steam it looks like you are never be able to stop a shit storm once the community has decided they want to start one. Even if it was just a misunderstanding
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> "[...]but I want to reassure OpenTTD fans that we have not been “pressured” by Atari to make these changes."

This seems a bit weird. Are we to believe that the OpenTTD devs just happily chose to put someone else's paywall on the game?

Like, I can imagine why this might be considered a fair an reasonable outcome, but obviously it is not a win for OpenTTD. Its a decision that surely must be the result of implicit pressure. Right?

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