Of course emergency services may have bigger generators and bigger fuel deposit, what i'm talking about most fuel generators in fuel stations are just for a couple of hours. many of this was based on what i see and listen to the radio during the Portuguese blackout. If the freezer generator can't use the fuel station fuel, then i don't know why so many big supermarket had their fuel station working... maybe just because they are newer and the supermarket chain didn't cheap out that part?! but anyway, they aren't probably planning many hours blackout, just keeping the business working and food in good conditions for and acceptable amount of time, to reduce the amount of losses

On a company where i worked, we had 2 massive generators, yet i have no idea where the fuel storage was, there was no outside dedicated building, it was probably underground, near the generators. They just needed one to keep things working, the second was a backup unit for the first (we also had massive UPS, to keep the basic until the generator was good to replace them)

Notice that not always it is a big generator, some modern fuel station have solar power with battery and fallback (local) output and other have just small generators inside external, ventilated boxes, so easy to get unnoticed. On emergencies, not all pumps need to work, just one of each kind. And yes, most are reserved for emergencies services. In Portugal, the radio reported the open to public stations in the main roads and it were just a list of around 20 stations all over the country, of the several hundred that existed. Probably after this, more station will be equipped with emergency generators. Some big supermarkets and food retailers that have fuel station in their grounds may also share the fridge generators, exactly to pump fuel to the generator and may still also serve the public

replace most with bigger... smaller shops, restaurants, coffeehouses manage to work still... yes, there were problems, but many will either insert the sells tomorrow, or simply not declare today sales and manage any out of sync info later

Portugal and Spain have log of wild fires, usually the vegetation under power lines are under heavy control, with team controlling and cleaning everything during winters and spring. I dough this is the reason for this one

who supply power to Gilbraltar? Probably not Spain, that would allow Spain to isolate it and force a UK negotiation :)

Spain and Portugal have flatland, but also mountains ranges, some very high, that can also generate weird winds and the today sunny day for sure increased the temperature on places that were cold (it snowed a few days ago in some mountains) , generate more wind or at least, rotating the wind direction. So yes, wind seems more likely than temperature

There are some, at least in Europe, usually in strategics locations, exactly allow fuel emergency services if there is any problem (fire, flood, earthquake, etc)

At least in Portugal, there are LONG lines of gas powered cars in the few gas staging that can still operate (either gravity or generator powered). Most can't even operate and some that can operate are blocked, reserved only for emergency services and the Grid operator technical teams, working to restore the power

There are reports of one Spanish power operator describing unexpected power problems 5 days ago, may be related to this or not... in a few days we will know more

True for France, false for Portugal. Portugal Spain interconnects are big and more being build. The excess power from solar is transferred to Portugal, where it is used to power hydro storage and later resell that power on high demand times (usually around sunset, people cooking and like), and early morning (bath and cooking breakfast)

Spain /Portugal interconnects were around 50% load and Portugal hydro storage was also around 50% of capacity... so no. It should not be excess capacity. Info from: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fapp.electricitymaps.co...

> It's clear to the utility company operators. They're just not making it public.

please inform us about it!! we all want to know!!

All we now right now is a major power fluctuation in Spain and cascaded to Portugal, as at that time Spain was outputting lot of cheap solar power and Portugal was using that power to store in their hydro storage systems and later resell that same power, just after sunset, when power demand is higher. France was also buying Spanish cheap solar power, but as Spain/France connections are somewhat weak, not at same amount range that Portugal was using.

So something went bad in Span and failed almost all the grid and due to the amount of power imported, Portugal also had the same problem. France, only the Spain border region were affected, but probably saving France grid also generated smaller power problems in other European countries (there were some reports of smaller problems in several countries), as France export much nuclear electricity to other European countries.

So what is confirmed is that the origin of the problem was somewhere in Spain. Real causes are still unknown, with some saying a cyberattack (already denied by several sources), other saying an unusual environmental (too hot, too cold differential messing the predicted power production/distribution), Solar flares, human error... and Putin invading Europe... A few years ago, in the Balkans, a tree top cause a similar problem on high voltage lines. Also in the past, a stork tried to do a nest in a high voltage line (there are protections to avoid that, but it managed to do it anyway) and took the power of some Lisbon regions for a couple of hours.

Anyway, nobody have a real trusted info and Spain electric grip operator still didn't report anything useful, they are mostly busy restoring all the grid and postponed the investigation to after the grid is restored.

France and north of Spain, near France, recovered power a few hours after. Portugal manage to recover almost everything on night fall and mostly only the capital still have power missing). South of Spain received help from Morocco and started to also recover that regions faster. Now most of Spain also have restored power, but there are still problems in several problems.

  Every time a region have their power restored, it can help the bordering regions to restore their power, but it is always a slower process. Electric power on this size is not a school circuit, it much more complex and needs always to have the system in sync, so another blackout doesn't happen again and waste all the work already done. At least in Portugal, there are warnings that smaller cuts (a couple of minutes) may still happen to help the grid to return to be in sync

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