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[owandeseis]

We lost electricity on Spain, hearing it's the same in France and Portugal, can anyone from other Eur countries confirm?

 

[LokusAbriss]

Lights are on in Germany.

 

[HRK69]

For the love of god let it be aliens

Please

 

[Nankatsu]

Portugal is out, can confirmed.

 

[Tiago Rodrigues]

Just Portugal and spain

 

[LimanimaPT]

Portugal is out, can confirmed.

Yup...I've heard that it's also in france, spain and holand.

 

[SJRB]

Had no idea they had electricity in Spain.

 

[Bojji]

For the love of god let it be aliens

Please

EMP bomb.

Everything works fine in Poland.

Had no idea they had electricity in Spain.

Google street view from Spain:

 

[Zathalus]

Netherlands here, no issues. Nothing reported by my work as well, and we cover the entire country.

 

[LimanimaPT]

Lights are on in Germany.

Are you in german or someone told you?

Edit: I incorrectly read "are out"

This seems to be only in portugal and spain. Someone cut the wire that comes from france

 

[Bitmap Frogs]

Seems France is having issues as well.

 

[Cyberpunkd]

Paris here, all good.

 

[Hudo]

Germany here, got no issues. Nothing reported, afaik.

 

[Bitmap Frogs]

Paris here, all good.

You better hurry and duck tape the cable…

I'll let you bum couple gauloises in exchange

 

[owandeseis]

Seems its Just whole Spain, Portugal, and a few parts on the south of France.

Internet works like crap taking mins to load for me, so cant edit shit myself

Lets hope it gets fixed soon and ty for update guys

 

[Donald mac Ronald]

My money is on a foreign power testing the waters in what they can hack and shut off in the west.

 

[Bojji]

Seems its Just whole Spain, Portugal, and a few parts on the south of France.

Internet works like crap taking mins to load for me, so cant edit shit myself

Lets hope it gets fixed soon and ty for update guys

Whole countries out of electricity is not "just". That's some major fuck up.

Spain has few nuclear power plants.

 

[Portugeezer]

No power here in Portugal.

I'm guessing cell phone towers have a backup seeing as my mobile Internet is working?

 

[Bojji]

My money is on a foreign power testing the waters in what they can hack and shut off in the west.

Live Free or Die Hard was Hollywood fiction but it shows why things like power plants shouldn't be connected to the internet - offline only.

 

[Bitmap Frogs]

No power here in Portugal.

I'm guessing cell phone towers have a backup seeing as my mobile Internet is working?

Same here I am in Barcelona. For what's it worth, Spanish electric network operator said it's beginning to recover at the north and the south and is attempting to progressive reenergize the network.

 

[Sybrix]

 

[kruis]

My money is on a foreign power testing the waters in what they can hack and shut off in the west.

You could be right. It must be a covert sabotage action by Russia's FSB of the Spain and Portugal's combined power grid. The combined population of Spain and Portugal is a mere 58 million people so hardly anyone will notice the disruption, the whole thing can be kept out of the news and it will serve as the perfect preparation for a future attack on the Baltics (population 6 million with close to non existent army).

This makes so much sense that I'll disregard any news about more logical explanations.

 

[kikii]

works fine here in Finland ^^

 

[Bitmap Frogs]

Truth is finding the root cause of the blackout will take awhile. Right now unless someone called the eu and said hi it's me no one knows anything.

 

[HRK69]

My money is on a foreign power testing the waters in what they can hack and shut off in the west.

People who think like this must be absolutely exhausted all day

Imagine living in constant fear that every power outage, every glitch, every little inconvenience is the result of some foreign power "testing the waters" lmfao

Not everything is some shadowy 4D chess move

 

[Bojji]

You could be right. It must be a covert sabotage action by Russia's FSB of the Spain and Portugal's combined power grid. The combined population of Spain and Portugal is a mere 58 million people so hardly anyone will notice the disruption, the whole thing can be kept out of the news and it will serve as the perfect preparation for a future attack on the Baltics (population 6 million with close to non existent army).

This makes so much sense that I'll disregard any news about more logical explanations.

Combined armies of Baltic states are ~50 000 and they are investing heavily into them. Land mines are returning to Europe as well. I would say, don't underestimate them. Especially after how soviet union was completely fucked buy much smaller Finland forces in WW2.

 

[NuclearDiarrhea]

Some DEI hire flipped the wrong switch probably.

 

[Bojji]

Some DEI hire flipped the wrong switch probably.

I mean, boats are full of African engineers so he couldn't be incompetent.

 

[RagnarokIV]

I mean, boats are full of African engineers so he couldn't be incompetent.

The boat of engineers was delayed so sadly it was just doctors and surgeons this time.

 

[Boozeroony]

Probably crappy infrastructure and human mistakes. It is worth ruling out sabotage though

 

[EviLore]

Entire first world countries can lose power in peace time…?

 

[AJUMP23]

You guys forget to pay your bill?

 

[Trunx81]

Seems like they are trying to make a Black Start in Spain right now.
The last days, renewables have been on a new peak. Now its too sunny and windy at the same time, so the electricity is blocking itself.
Happens when you invest only in solar and windcraft but use lines from the 1920s.

 

[ChuckeRearmed]

Entire first world countries can lose power in peace time…?

Yes. It is the drawback of centralized grids. It does put in perspective that you can shutdown the whole grid, infrastructure etc. across multiple european countries at once. Can be used in wars - shutdown grid and no trains are running, decimating logistics. Plus airports.

 

[Great Auk]

I mean, boats are full of African engineers so he couldn't be incompetent.

Those are the largest children I've ever seen!

 

[Peggies]

Entire first world countries can lose power in peace time…?

Well, unfortunately we don't seem to be living in peace time anymore .

 

[Bojji]

Those are the largest children I've ever seen!

+ women are very masculine.

 

[Bitmap Frogs]

Seems like they are trying to make a Black Start in Spain right now.
The last days, renewables have been on a new peak. Now its too sunny and windy at the same time, so the electricity is blocking itself.
Happens when you invest only in solar and windcraft but use lines from the 1920s.

Electricity blocking itself is a thing?

 

[protonion]

All good in Greece, browsing gaf from work...

I cannot recall hearing ever about a country wide black out.... Has this happened anywhere before?

 

[p_xavier]

I was just telling a colleague to stock up 6 months in food in case of an electricity infrastructure hack. What a coincidence if that's really the cause.

 

[Dr.Morris79]

Now from our man on the scene in Spain

 

[jufonuk]

I have electricity here in France

 

[Trunx81]

Electricity blocking itself is a thing?

oh boy, where do I start
Short version: Yes, yes it is! A lot!

Example: When the sun shines in Bavaria, Germany, they have to shut down some solar panel plants because of over-production.
Imagine a river that suddenly gets way too much water and starts to roll towards a dam. Damn, you think and shut down what you can.

 

[Robot Carnival]

Huge power cut causes chaos in Spain and Portugal as trains, traffic lights, and payments hit

Shops and restaurants in Madrid were plunged into darkness, and there are queues at cash points in Lisbon as card payments aren't working.

www.bbc.com

 

[p_xavier]

All good in Greece, browsing gaf from work...

I cannot recall hearing ever about a country wide black out.... Has this happened anywhere before?

Not full country but provinces and states are just as big as Euro countries. Was major at the time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_blackout_of_2003

 

[Dr.Morris79]

I have electricity here in France

I should bloody hope so. The only smart thinking country in Europe to make their own..

Meanwhile, in the UK

 

[Wildebeest]

Electricity blocking itself is a thing?

Oversupply could conceivably damage infrastructure on the grid or trigger elements to automatically disconnect.

 

[Trunx81]

10 GW loss of demand .. damn, that´s quite huge.

The power grid must keep generation and consumption balanced all the time. A "10 GW loss of demand" means that 10 gigawatts of electricity usage suddenly disappeared, likely because of a blackout or emergency shutdowns. This sudden drop causes the grid frequency to rise sharply, which can damage equipment and destabilize the network. Between Spain and France, such a large event suggests major grid problems, possibly involving automatic protections or a partial system collapse.

 

[mitch1971]

Someone forgot to put 50p in the meter.

 

[Peggies]

My brother lives in Spain and works at the hospital. He's not happy.