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☮ ♥ ♬ 🧑‍💻<p>“Several days on, the cause of <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Europe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Europe</span></a>’s biggest <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/blackout" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>blackout</span></a> in two decades is still being investigated. Spain’s grid operator, <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/RedEl%C3%A9ctrica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RedEléctrica</span></a>, says a loss of generation in the country’s south-west led to a sudden cascade of failures. </p><p>What tripped off, why, and how this escalated so dramatically is unclear. </p><p>But the fact that an entire peninsula could be plunged into <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/darkness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>darkness</span></a> in a matter of seconds has caused alarm around the world, raising urgent questions about the stability of <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/EnergyUInfrastructure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EnergyUInfrastructure</span></a> at a time when many countries are switching to low carbon <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/electricity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>electricity</span></a> instead of burning fossil fuels”</p><p>“Our power systems were conceived for an era of centralised, predictable generation,” says <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/XavierDaval" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>XavierDaval</span></a>, chair of France’s <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/renewable" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>renewable</span></a> energy trade association <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/SOLERSER" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SOLERSER</span></a>. “But the emerging electric world is <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/distributed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>distributed</span></a>, <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/digital" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>digital</span></a>, and <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/adaptive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>adaptive</span></a>. This is not a glitch to patch — it’s a <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/paradigm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>paradigm</span></a> that must be rethought.” </p><p>&lt;<a href="https://archive.md/JOyS3" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">archive.md/JOyS3</span><span class="invisible"></span></a>&gt; / &lt;<a href="https://www.ft.com/content/3b807eff-fdaf-49f6-9611-00c4ff992a43" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">ft.com/content/3b807eff-fdaf-4</span><span class="invisible">9f6-9611-00c4ff992a43</span></a>&gt; (paywall)</p>