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Title: Spanish Grid Operator Faults Big Power Plants in Blackout Blame Game

Link: https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/25/05/23/...

Spain's grid operator has accused some large power plants of not doing their
job to help regulate the country's electricity system in the moments before
last month's catastrophic blackout across the Iberian peninsula. From a
report: Beatriz Corredor, chair of grid operator Red Electrica's parent
company, said power plants fell short in controlling the voltage of the
electricity system. However, the heads of Spain's biggest plant owners linked
the blackout to a lack of grid investment and insufficient efforts to boost
electricity demand. The public blame game over the outage is intensifying as
more than three weeks after 60 million people were left without power,
Spanish government investigators insisted they needed more time to establish
the root cause.

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