Blackle stopped two countries, but nothing happened from the other world P24 podcast
Global failure in the electricity distribution network He is able to stop the two European countries in the twenty -first century It looks like an invention worthy of the best science fiction. But sometimes the reality is outside the imagination and the occurrence of yesterday’s skipping. This happened not because of a natural disaster, a terrorist attack, or an unlikely human error: this happened because experts say, things can occur.
When the system is managed by hundreds of millions of consumer points fed by hundreds of production points, the risk of failure between supply and energy demand, after all, is greater than the suspect. It was not yet known what happened yet, but it seems that the extraordinary event on Monday may have been identified through such a cold phenomenon, although on a huge scale, such as shots at home when there is an overload on the electric voltage or short circuit.
The most important now is that the Portuguese and the Spaniards were affected by fragility in the salt system. There was no greater harm to society or economy, as this is not the first time that blacks occurred in Brazil, Chile or the United States, but the more accidents of this size, it is necessary to take lessons from there. Experts who appeared in newspapers and televisions left recommendations ranging from the review of calls to Spain, and the alleged weak citizen to remove the production of national generators whenever cheaper to purchase energy there or urge to review the delivery between the system that results in the electricity distribution network.
Perhaps at this stage there was more controversial and more unanimous. When there is a blackout in Portugal, there are only two production centers who can inject energy into the network to start calls and normal life: Tapada do Outeiro and Bode Castle Dam. The government has already defended the need to double this productive capacity of production, join low dams and sober dams.
Between the failures and the ability of the global response that showed civil maturity and the solidarity of custom, it is worth knowing what may happen and what lessons we can take from the incident that we knew was happening again in the future. To obtain these answers, we invited this episode Joao Bisas Lopes, Professor of the College of Engineering in Porto, Director of the Scientific Committee for the PhD program in sustainable and coordinated engineering systems and director of the TEC4 Energy Unit, in INEC TEC also in Porto.
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