That there have been few blackouts in the past - with natural gas aplenty and more nuclear power stations online, fewer electric cars demanding to be charged, f

That there have been few blackouts in the past - with natural gas aplenty and more nuclear power stations online, fewer electric cars demanding to be charged, fewer data centres which each are good for half the output of a modestly sized power station - does not mean much for the current or direct future situation. Here's the differences, in case I need to spell it out: - the relative dearth of natural gas does not just affect Germany... - ...it also affects countries around Germany which use natural gas for power generation... - ...which means less power is available for export by those countries to Germany... - ...just at the start of winter which is the season when electrical power demand peaks. I live in Sweden where blackouts only occurred due to natural disasters, mostly storms taking out local power distribution infrastructure. Things have changed here, both due to the closure of half the nuclear capacity which has now been acknowledged by the CEO of the state-owned backbone power distributor "Svenska Kraftnät" to be the main cause of the problems middle and southern Sweden experiences [1] as well as due to the larger demands placed on export capacity due to the problems in Germany and elsewhere. There are warnings for potential blackouts here as well which hitherto was something unthinkable given the overcapacity Sweden normally has. [1]https://sverigesradio.se/avsnitt/svenska-kraftnat-i-varsta-fall-kopplar-vi-ifran-elen https://sverigesradio.se/avsnitt/svenska-kraftnat-i-varsta-f...