Very interesting. It would be a great idea to pass on the benefits of renewables to consumers. It really makes no sense to base the energy price on the price of fuel in countries where most energy is generated from renewables like the southern European countries. It just benefits the companies. Even if it helps build more of those renewables at this point people need to see the advantages on their energy bills.

Also I think more encouragement/incentives for self production would really help people feel more involved in the transition. By allowing them go have a sense that energy does not magically appear from the air. This of course will need some grid improvements but would increase energy autonomy, reliance and a sense of local power to populations.

I thought about that too. A lot of people are too eager to blame this or that power generation when what I think failed was the network as a whole because it’s such a massive system and a monolith. I really thought it was more modular than that.

Also in that day anyone with their own solar panels at least had some energy. So like you said, smaller systems are more resilient.

For me, it’s a consideration for the future, making sure that if I have to, I have some power generating capacity, maybe even some storage.

What? Is the server Portugal based? I’m surprised to see fellow Portuguese people around here. Always assumed it was american or danish or something. Good to know!

About the blackout I would stay away from jumping to theories right now since the investigation is still on going and way too much was made up in that afternoon with no power. I think the latest theory is related to instability caused maybe by too much solar power suddenly injected into the network in Spain, which caused the network to crash which in turn crashed the Portuguese one. But, as far as I read this is the latest theory not a definite one so take it with a grain of salt.

Is it? Maybe both? A movement against climate change makes sense? A movement for climate change in the sense of raising the issue could also make sense? What a funny language