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Re:Full power outage in Spain and Portugal by bombcar on Monday April 28, 2025 @04:56PM (#43826012)
That’s not necessarily 100 true, as you could have multiple plants black start and then synchronize later.

In fact, if you’re not sure which will start first, you might go that way. They’re all disconnected from the grid at that time anyway.

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Re:Full power outage in Spain and Portugal by throwup238 on Tuesday April 29, 2025 @01:31PM (#43835569)
You’re absolutely right, there are a lot of variations. In this case I think Portugal started from their own hydroelectric dam and restarted everything North to South while Spain started several in parallel from the interconnects to the rest of Europe (can’t tell which interconnect it was though).
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