Didn’t know about the Reuters thing. Investigation will be key. People will keep jumping in w theories and many of them w at best motivated reasoning. IIRC there’s one overland interconnect from Iberian Peninsula to rest of Europe, and one to Morocco. They’re basically an island. Whether more interconnect would have helped or created more risk will be bitterly contested. Good chat w Our Man in Seville on going thru it: https://open.substack.com/pub/wickedpr0blems/p/iberian-blackout-one-off-fiesta-or?r=r1dq&utm_medium=ios
Didn’t know about the Reuters thing. Investigation will be key. People will keep jumping in w theories and many of them w at best motivated reasoning. IIRC there’s one overland interconnect from Iberian Peninsula to rest of Europe, and one to Morocco. They’re basically an island. Whether more interconnect would have helped or created more risk will be bitterly contested. Good chat w Our Man in Seville on going thru it: https://open.substack.com/pub/wickedpr0blems/p/iberian-blackout-one-off-fiesta-or?r=r1dq&utm_medium=ios