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Aagesen singled out the role of the Spanish grid operator REE and certain energy companies she did not name which disconnected their plants "inappropriately... to protect their installations."

She also pointed to "insufficient voltage control capacity" on the system that day, due in part to a programming flaw, stressing that Spain's grid is theoretically robust enough to handle such situations.

Due to these misjudgments "we reached a point of no return with an uncontrollable chain reaction" that could only have been managed if steps had been taken beforehand to absorb the overvoltage problems, she added.

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[–] unprovenbreeze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Who could have thought that private grid operators would prioritize their installations over anything else.

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 15 hours ago

Or cheap out on parts!

[–] isgleas@lemmy.ml 21 points 23 hours ago

I just hope they demand economical reparations to those un-named energy companies, accordingly to the damage inflicted and not only a few million euros.

[–] NoForwardslashS@sopuli.xyz 8 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Due to these misjudgments "we reached a point of no return with an uncontrollable chain reaction"

Now where have I heard that before?

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 3 points 20 hours ago