The Agonizing Task of Turning Europe’s Power Back On

“You must expect every failure that can happen, and you should survive any of them,” says Kofi. From the control room, engineers should be able to know the parts of the network that works for sure, so they will not fly blind – but it will take time.

“Even with a completely healthy network, doing this black start may take 12 hours or 16 hours. You have to do it in succession, and it takes a long time. I’m sure there are engineers who wear clothes everywhere while we are talking in an attempt to achieve all this,” says Kofi. “It is like assembling some complex IKEA furniture in the form of hell.”

The biggest problem is that, without a clear, clear reason for the kidneys in the first place, it will be difficult for engineers to know the place of re -establishment of power first without leading to another interruption.

“The challenge lies in the conformity of the supply and demand constantly,” says Kitan Joshi, independent climate and energy consultant. “You need to perform this balance law, and not just connect everything to return there.” Joshi describes it as a “opposite direction.”

“When a tree falls on an electrical line, you end up cutting a small portion of the network. It is pain. One hundred homes are adopted, a crew comes and the department is reactivated and rebuilt.” This is the same, but on a huge scale. “When you have a blackout like those that we see in Spain and Portugal, the challenge of setting the supply and demand becomes a mocked way. Every time you connect a new part of the families, you have to perform the same balance.

REN (Red Eletrica Nacional), the main power operator in Portugal, presented a statement to the BBC saying that the interruption of “maximum temperature differences in the interior of Spain.

“I scratched my head in it,” says Kofi. He explains that it may run each of the country’s networks by national operators, but they are cut together as a simultaneous network, which means that if each other fails – which makes him completely unexpected to blame the other person.

When it comes to supporting the network, both operators are alone. Jean -Roseno, Vice president of the World Strategy on the Organizational Aid Project, says something that is applying for energy policies in the energy community. The ability of the collective interdependence of Portugal and Portugal with the rest of Europe – that is, how much of its capacity that they can extract from or send to the wider continent – is less than the 2030 goal in 2030 set by the European Union.