How France is organizing to avoid a general power outage
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At all times, the transmission system operator (RTE) ensures the balance between electricity consumption, production, imports, and exports. This is essential for the proper functioning of the system.
On Monday, Spain suffered a " 15 GW loss of production " (the equivalent of the output of fifteen of our nuclear reactors), the cause of which is still unknown. At the same time, the Iberian Peninsula disconnected from the European grid. However, for the system to function, production must strictly match consumption. A true balancing act that the transmission system operator ( RTE in France, Red in Spain, etc.) must perform at all times. Suffice it to say that with 15 GW less, for an installed capacity of 126 GW, the numbers were no longer there. Is France better equipped to withstand such a failure?
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The scale of Monday's incident in the Iberian Peninsula is enough to bring down an entire organization, which relies on a complex process of forecasting and real-time observations. For RTE, managing a day begins the day before! " The first exercise is the D-1 forecast, and the verification…
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