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With the caveat that the standby is likely only going to be required during winter in case of prolonged dark and windless weather. Everything else will be cove

• sofixa 1y ago
  > With the caveat that the standby is likely only going to be required during winter in case of prolonged dark and windless weather Which had already happened a few times across big parts of Europe, with weeks of overcast and low wind weather. Specifically for Spain, a better backup wil probably be more interconnects with France and their stable nuclear power.
• martinald 1y ago
  Which is basically every winter in Northern Europe at least, and is usually when electricity demand is the highest (very cold days tend to have the least wind). The UK was very very close to a blackout last winter for this exact reason. If Denmark weren't able to suspend maintenance on part of their grid to max out the Viking HVDC (it was running at half capacity) there would have been loss of supply. Potentially contained to one region and temporarily but it's hard to say for sure. What's worse is the communication from NESO (now government owned, very recently) was downright misleading to how close it came.