Great summary of Spain's blackout. We Spaniards tend to be more visceral and less pragmatic. First we look for culprits, even under rocks, and then we tend to relax and forget that we have to get to work to avoid it in the future. I belonged to a Commission of Experts between 2017 and 2018 to recommend to the government of that time what could be done to make the energy transition as good as possible. The government changed in June 2018, and the one that came in did not pay a damn bit of attention to our final report —of more than 500 pages—delivered only two months before. Some of the recommendations in that report, if implemented, would have undoubtedly prevented the blackout from occurring.
Así es. Si la transición energética es complicada, en sí, pues hay que conjugar diversos factores con precisión, si se politiza todo, como hacemos en España, la cosa se complica mucho más. Los operadores eléctricos europeos deberían seguir el nuevo ejemplo estrucural del Reino Unido y hacerse independientes de facto del gobierno de turno. Gracias por atenderme!!
La privatización no inhibe la politización de energía. Al contrario, abre camino a otra crítica espuria de la transición: que las renovables son una herramienta nueva de manipular mercados a beneficio de los operadores privados.
I've been listening for over three years now to people saying that Ukraine cannot withstand Russia's invasion for much longer and that Ukraine is just a US proxy. Evidence doesn't seem to bear either of these things out.
Great summary of Spain's blackout. We Spaniards tend to be more visceral and less pragmatic. First we look for culprits, even under rocks, and then we tend to relax and forget that we have to get to work to avoid it in the future. I belonged to a Commission of Experts between 2017 and 2018 to recommend to the government of that time what could be done to make the energy transition as good as possible. The government changed in June 2018, and the one that came in did not pay a damn bit of attention to our final report —of more than 500 pages—delivered only two months before. Some of the recommendations in that report, if implemented, would have undoubtedly prevented the blackout from occurring.
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Que miseria. REE dice que aprendieron lecciones del apagón, pero no dijeron cuáles eran. No me sorprendería otro apagón en el futuro no tan lejano
Así es. Si la transición energética es complicada, en sí, pues hay que conjugar diversos factores con precisión, si se politiza todo, como hacemos en España, la cosa se complica mucho más. Los operadores eléctricos europeos deberían seguir el nuevo ejemplo estrucural del Reino Unido y hacerse independientes de facto del gobierno de turno. Gracias por atenderme!!
La privatización no inhibe la politización de energía. Al contrario, abre camino a otra crítica espuria de la transición: que las renovables son una herramienta nueva de manipular mercados a beneficio de los operadores privados.
I've been listening for over three years now to people saying that Ukraine cannot withstand Russia's invasion for much longer and that Ukraine is just a US proxy. Evidence doesn't seem to bear either of these things out.
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