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parasenseyesterday at 9:15 PM2 repliesview on HN

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Rygianyesterday at 9:36 PM

The Iberian outage had nothing to do with inertia.

The root cause was insufficient dispatch of reactive power due to non compliance of some power providers, and ultimately traceable to outdated procedures for the dispatch of reactive power.

seanalltogetheryesterday at 9:30 PM

Flywheel battery storage is still considered pretty niche. I wonder if blackout prevention will start to bolster it's usage. Imagine if every large scale solar or wind farm were required maintain some amount of rotational storage

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