Blackout - Iberian Peninsula
May 09, 2025 13:09 On April 28, 2025, a massive power outage occurred on the Iberian Peninsula, affecting Spain, Portugal and parts of southern France. It is assumed that a combination of technical faults and grid instability led to the large-scale shutdown. The grid radar Wide Area Monitoring Systems (WAMS) provides a detailed insight into the grid dynamics.
System Support by Batteries
Nov 07, 2024 17:31 System supportive behaviour can provide a benefit for the system and for the service provider. However, German balancing responsible parties are obliged to best meet their schedule in any situation. This is possible in rarest cases. It is indisputable in times of highly flexible energy provision and consumption technologies that German balancing group loyalty is not efficient. We demonstrate here for a battery that even most simplistic strategies of system supportive behaviour provide a business case for batteries and, at the same time, reduce balancing costs.
Chances Flexibilities
Oct 16, 2024 13:00 Potential is currently opening up for new market players such as battery marketers and flexibility aggregators. TSOs want to use these capacities to stabilise the system and are creating new products. In addition, new players are also becoming involved in the area of system stabilisation by exploiting their high adaptation speed in conjunction with sophisticated AI models. The following compares the status quo and the potential of the three major European synchronised areas for such new market players in terms of system stability.
>1000 Gridradar-API Users
Mar 19, 2024 21:00 This time a post on our own behalf: At the beginning of March the time had come - Gridradar.net celebrates >1000 users of the Gridradar API! We are proud of this. Because in less than 2.5 years, the magic threshold has been crossed.
Number 4
Dec 22, 2023 07:51 Interconnector failures do not only affect the British tranmission system. Rather, the effects are also visible in the markets. Such outages offer growing short-term potential for battery energy storage systems and flexible consumers. (Picture by Billy69150 under license CC BY-SA 4.0: TGV TMST 3011-2 - Sortie Tunnel sous la Manche à Coquelles.jpg)
Interconnector trip FR - UK
Sep 05, 2023 19:00 On 01 September 2023, an interconnector trip between France and UK resulted in a massive frequency drop. The increasing PV infeed during the period of the trip secured the UK against larger consequences for the suppliers and consuments. (Picture by Jonathan Billinger under license CC BY-SA 2.0: : Sellindge Converter Station of the IFA2 Interconnector)