On April 28, 2025, the Iberian Peninsula experienced a dramatic blackout. At exactly 12:33:30, a cascading failure disconnected the grids of Spain and Portugal from the wider European electricity system, plunging millions into darkness. We now have not the hot takes of the usual anti-renewables rabble, but the 192-page report … [continued]
The blackout in Spain and Portugal last week was Preventable, with careful planning and knowledgeable policies.
Both batteries and demand response played roles in keeping the lights—and AC—on in California on June 17 and 18. We’re going to need more of both.
Millions of Americas are at risk of serious health issues if heat waves and power outages occur at the same time — something that is happening more frequently.
Despite numerous claims to the contrary from Australian politicians over the last few weeks, the Australian Energy Market Operator has confirmed that the cause of the September 28th state-wide blackout was not the variability inherent in wind energy. At approximately 3:45pm on Wednesday, September 28, all of South Australia and … [continued]
Originally published on RenewEconomy The Coalition appears to have abandoned all pretence that it supports renewable energy, now contradicting assurances by the grid owner and market operator – and now the biggest generator in the country – that the source of energy was not at fault for the massive blackout … [continued]
Blackouts don’t normally get international attention, so for those who didn’t hear, Australia’s southern state of South Australia last week suffered a massive and total blackout due to one of the most extreme weather events to hit the state over the last 50 years. At approximately 3:45pm Wednesday afternoon (September … [continued]
A researcher from the US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory who has been investigating how to better manage and track electrical power blackouts may also have developed a way to better integrate renewable energy into the power grid. Travis Smith and fellow R&D staff members at the Oak … [continued]
Modern life and civilization depends a great deal on easy access to electricity — everything from transportation, to food production, to medical care, to crime management, etc, depends on it. So what happens when disruptions occur, when the electric grid is no longer reliable and there is no longer easy … [continued]
Demand response could more than double to 21.9 million sites and 155.4GW of potential power demand curtailment capacity worldwide by 2020, predicts a new report from Navigant Research.
