No Tricks Zone by P Gosselin on 28. February 2020
Power Grid Vulnerability Exposed: Storm, High Winds Lead To Power Outages Over Large Areas Of Germany
German t-online.de news portal here reports how yesterday large areas of central and southern Germany saw the power fail yesterday due to “snow and storms.â€
In some locations the power was out for hours, t-online.de reports.
Of course snow itself has little to do with the power going out. Rather the power outages are signs of an increasingly unstable power grid due in large part to the wildly fluctuating feed-in of volatile wind and solar energy.
Yesterday late evening’s storm and its winds led to wild fluctuation in the European power grid at around 8 p.m. The grid frequency critically dropped well below the 50 Hz value, which meant more power was being consumed than generated.
More:
https://notrickszone.com/2020/02/28/power-grid-vulnerability-exposed-storm-high-winds-lead-to-power-outages-over-large-areas-of-germany/
