History repeats as Iberian blackout demonstrates urgent need for battery storage

The vast blackout that gripped the Iberian Peninsula on April 28 has echoes of a similar event in an Australian state in 2016. The solution in both cases appears to be the same. From ESS News While the series of events that lead to the crippling blackout that impacted Spain on April 28 are still to be analyzed, the disastrous power-system failure has the hallmarks of a similar calamity that befell an Australian state in the mid 2010s. And while far smaller in scope, the blackout Down Under could point to both the cause and solution to the European power outage. While the precise causes of the ...

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