Michael Shellenberger
@shellenberger · 28. Apr. 2025
This is truly bananas: all of Europe appears to have been seconds away a continent-wide blackout.
The grid frequency across continental Europe plunged to 49.85 hertz — just a hair above the red-line collapse threshold.
The normal operating frequency for Europe’s power grid
Michael Shellenberger@shellenberger· 28. Apr. 2025Renewables don't risk blackouts, said the media. But they did and they do. The physics are simple. And now, as blackouts in Spain strand people in elevators, jam traffic, and ground flights, it's clear that too little "inertia" due to excess solar resulted in system collapse.
Elon Musk
@elonmusk
They need batteries to stabilize the grid
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