Thanks to cookies and gdpr, warranties on electric items are two years in the eu.

'Good going on', rarely affects my wallet.

And most of the "bad going on" is completely out of your control. People could do with consuming a lot less national/international news.

There are other valid reasons to watch the news though.

Tangent (not much): This includes you, microsoft.

Who is clicking on the ads though?

Most Europeans are NOT confused by this. Sheesh.

I am European, I have had this discussion with Europeans back home from various countries. This is a common point of confusion. Do you have something to add?

Try asking anyone in Europe what race they are, especially in an administrative context lmao

The government asking race questions on official forms would be rather unthinkable! We don't mention the war.

Vince may be.

Anyways, I gave up my music production dreams after that.

Keep trying. I do music-for me - but i like the idea of using Suno after what you wrote.

"secretly"

> So renewables didn't cause the blackout per the author, but according to the neutral report [0], solar and wind exacerbated the blackout.

So, what caused the blackput?

It is a complex system. There is no single cause. There's a multitude of causes.

The root cause tree with its multiple roots on page 23 is a good start.

That report concentrates on the forensics, but it doesn't really look at any of the root causes which were failures at the regulatory or political level. The Spanish electricity network was designed such that it would fail.

Working out why the regulator failed is no easy task. And fixing regulators is highly political.

You might compare against another country that successfully integrated massive solar systems such as Australia. They had a functional regulatory environment that designed their systems to handle the supply changes. Some of that was through world leading deployment of battery systems to help regulate their network.

There is a lot of specialist expertise (e.g. nera.com economic consultants) that is paid by a countries network operator to design their networks and markets. The staff within individual countries either lack sufficient analytical skills or lack sufficient political clout to make their networks deeply resilient.