The Agonizing Task of Turning Europe’s Power Back On

Electricity was made on Monday at 12:30. Spanish and Portuguese trains, planes and traffic lights have stopped working.

Reports appeared People stuck in elevatorsAnd Google Maps showed vibrant data, including large cities, including Madrid and Barcelona. Great airports warned passengers of delays due to draft. His reason is still unknown. The black color is expected to affect the integrity of Portugal and Spain and small areas in France.

“Traffic light workers don’t work. The streets are chaotic because every passage has an officer,” said Gustavo living in Madrid. “Water does not reach apartments at the top of buildings, because pumps are electric and very little shop that is open.”

This is a nightmare scenario of each electric engineer, Paul Cuffe, University College Dublin Associate Professor of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. “The reason for the absence of my widespread excellence is that the system operators are very active in use very conservative and large security marches to make sure that the system operators do not occur.” Engineers plan plans for grids or growing failures with consumer demand that can disrupt electricity supply. “These things are unusual, but there is always a hidden danger for a power engineer.”

Spanish electricity operator red electricity He said in an article in X Bandial power in Cataluña and the northeastern region; Vasco, Galice, La Rioja, Asturias, Navarra, Léon. Extremes in the east; and Andalusia in the south.

Experts believe that it can take a network back and last from a few days to a few days from the territories working in both countries. Although the grid backup is backed up, ambulance services will likely be preferred to things like a stable internet connection.

There are a good step sequence of steps that happen now. To create a re-working network, gradually intends to make a process called a “black start” that gradually redesign power plants. The power supply and demand must be balanced to prevent further significant, meaning of the online arrival of stations, only parts of the grid, the country gradually strengthens and increases step by step. It should be a team within the network operator that determines that planning and which generators will first bring online.

“You have to wait for every failure that can happen and you should live any of them,” Cuffe says. Engineers from the control room should be able to say that the parts of the chey should not work for the absolute operation, but they will still take time.

“Even with a completely healthy network, it can take 12 hours or 16 hours at this black start.