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I found this article from bloomberg on the event! > Europe’s grid, which is usually connected from Lisbon to Istanbul, split into two as the northwest and sout

I found this article from bloomberg on the event! > Europe’s grid, which is usually connected from Lisbon to Istanbul, split into two as the northwest and southeast regions struggled to keep the same frequency. The problem originated in Croatia and led to the equivalent of 200,000 households losing power across Europe. Supply to industrial sites was cut in France and Italy. > Transmission grids need to stay at a frequency of 50 hertz to operate smoothly and any deviations can damage equipment that’s connected. Had the frequency swings not been reduced within minutes, it could have caused damage across the entire European high voltage network, potentially causing blackouts for millions. > A fault at a substation that caused overloading on other parts of Croatia’s grid has been identified as the cause of the issue, network operators concluded Tuesday. > “The problem isn’t posed by growing green electricity directly but by shrinking conventional capacity,” said Eglantine Kuenle, chief electricity systems modeler at the EWI Institute of Energy Economics at Cologne University. “The upshot is a gap in secure power generation and grid balancing that must be fixed.” https://web.archive.org/web/20230621192146/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-27/green-shift-brings-blackout-risk-to-world-s-biggest-power-grid#xj4y7vzkg https://web.archive.org/web/20230621192146/https://www.bloom... ---- Personal thoughts. I knew we had an interconnected grid, but I had no idea it span from Portugal to Türkiye, nor that the rest of Scandinavia wasn't connected. For a system as critical, and as complex, it seems like a feat of engineering on all sides involved.

halper 3y ago
Apologise to pick nits, but if it is not Turkey it is Türkiye. The former is perfectly fine in English.
- PartiallyTyped 3y ago
  Oh, sorry, my bad!
- sgjohnson 3y ago
  > if it is not Turkey it is Türkiye. The former is perfectly fine in English. Not according to the Turkish government. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/03/turkey-changes-name-to-turkiye-as-other-name-is-for-the-birds https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/03/turkey-changes...
  - brnt 3y ago
    Fortunately they are not in charge of English. Not even the English government is. At most they are in charge of their respective versions and advocacy of it. Alphabets and certainly diacritics are used differently in different languages, so insisting on a certain way of writing can only lead to inconsistent pronunciation.
- type0 3y ago
  I just hope they don't go back to Arabic alphabet, it would be a pain to write. Btw when will China start demanding we refer to it as Zhōngguó, or better yet 中國 /s
  - halper 3y ago
    I think this illustrates the point well: if they were to write it in another script completely, English would adopt some transliteration of the name, i.e. an exonym.
chx 3y ago
You don't need that, the official report is good https://www.entsoe.eu/news/2021/07/15/final-report-on-the-separation-of-the-continental-europe-power-system-on-8-january-2021/ https://www.entsoe.eu/news/2021/07/15/final-report-on-the-se...
- wolverine876 3y ago
  Official reports can be self-serving, both intentionally and unintentionally (it represents only one perspective). Journalists talk to many sources with many perspectives.
  - chx 3y ago
    Journalists might but the publication which did the supermicro spy chip story without retracting it does not deserve that moniker. (Small footnote: I was a columnist, later editor, even later part of the editorial board of the largest computer monthly in Hungary in what now feels like a different life a quarter century ago.)
    - wolverine876 3y ago
      > the publication which did the supermicro spy chip story How is that related to what we're talking about? > does not deserve that moniker That's pretty extreme. One story you didn't like, and that's it? I don't think anything, certainly not press releases, will meet your standard.
kzrdude 3y ago
And the work to speed up Moldova & Ukraine's connection to the sychronous grid, just after Russia invaded in 2021, was impressive too.
- brnt 3y ago
  At the time, it was said this plan was the immediate reason for the invasion: letting the sync finish would have crossed some measure of western integration for the Kremlins tastes.
  - actionfromafar 3y ago
    The Kremlin is so easily offended.
- XEKEP 3y ago
  You meant 2022, right? I'm linking an article describing how Ukraine connected to EU grid [1] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-ukraine-unplugged-from-russia-and-joined-europes-power-grid-with-unprecedented-speed/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-ukraine-unplu...
  - kzrdude 3y ago
    Oh yes, 2022.
b3orn 3y ago
To be a little nit-picky the grid includes Scandinavia through HVDC connections with the rest of Europe, see [1] for the entire ENTSO-E grid. If you mean the synchronous grid, Denmark is part of Scandinavia and its continental part is synchronised with the rest of Europe. [1]: https://www.entsoe.eu/data/map/downloads https://www.entsoe.eu/data/map/downloads
natmaka 3y ago
> I knew we had an interconnected grid, but I had no idea it span from WP articles about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronous_grid_of_Continental_Europe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronous_grid_of_Continenta... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_super_grid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_super_grid

halper 3y ago

Apologise to pick nits, but if it is not Turkey it is Türkiye. The former is perfectly fine in English.

PartiallyTyped 3y ago
Oh, sorry, my bad!
sgjohnson 3y ago
> if it is not Turkey it is Türkiye. The former is perfectly fine in English. Not according to the Turkish government. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/03/turkey-changes-name-to-turkiye-as-other-name-is-for-the-birds https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/03/turkey-changes...
- brnt 3y ago
  Fortunately they are not in charge of English. Not even the English government is. At most they are in charge of their respective versions and advocacy of it. Alphabets and certainly diacritics are used differently in different languages, so insisting on a certain way of writing can only lead to inconsistent pronunciation.
type0 3y ago
I just hope they don't go back to Arabic alphabet, it would be a pain to write. Btw when will China start demanding we refer to it as Zhōngguó, or better yet 中國 /s
- halper 3y ago
  I think this illustrates the point well: if they were to write it in another script completely, English would adopt some transliteration of the name, i.e. an exonym.

chx 3y ago

You don't need that, the official report is good https://www.entsoe.eu/news/2021/07/15/final-report-on-the-separation-of-the-continental-europe-power-system-on-8-january-2021/ https://www.entsoe.eu/news/2021/07/15/final-report-on-the-se...

wolverine876 3y ago
Official reports can be self-serving, both intentionally and unintentionally (it represents only one perspective). Journalists talk to many sources with many perspectives.
- chx 3y ago
  Journalists might but the publication which did the supermicro spy chip story without retracting it does not deserve that moniker. (Small footnote: I was a columnist, later editor, even later part of the editorial board of the largest computer monthly in Hungary in what now feels like a different life a quarter century ago.)
  - wolverine876 3y ago
    > the publication which did the supermicro spy chip story How is that related to what we're talking about? > does not deserve that moniker That's pretty extreme. One story you didn't like, and that's it? I don't think anything, certainly not press releases, will meet your standard.

kzrdude 3y ago

And the work to speed up Moldova & Ukraine's connection to the sychronous grid, just after Russia invaded in 2021, was impressive too.

brnt 3y ago
At the time, it was said this plan was the immediate reason for the invasion: letting the sync finish would have crossed some measure of western integration for the Kremlins tastes.
- actionfromafar 3y ago
  The Kremlin is so easily offended.
XEKEP 3y ago
You meant 2022, right? I'm linking an article describing how Ukraine connected to EU grid [1] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-ukraine-unplugged-from-russia-and-joined-europes-power-grid-with-unprecedented-speed/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-ukraine-unplu...
- kzrdude 3y ago
  Oh yes, 2022.

b3orn 3y ago

To be a little nit-picky the grid includes Scandinavia through HVDC connections with the rest of Europe, see [1] for the entire ENTSO-E grid. If you mean the synchronous grid, Denmark is part of Scandinavia and its continental part is synchronised with the rest of Europe. [1]: https://www.entsoe.eu/data/map/downloads https://www.entsoe.eu/data/map/downloads

natmaka 3y ago

> I knew we had an interconnected grid, but I had no idea it span from WP articles about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronous_grid_of_Continental_Europe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronous_grid_of_Continenta... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_super_grid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_super_grid