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One huge condition will be: has your country invested enough in a super reliable infrastructure?

Spain wasn’t bad in this regard (like most western European countries) but that recent event was hardly foreseeable. And they forgot to prepare for the “black start”, which prolonged the problem.

In the future, the grids must become even more reliable and fault tolerant.

Some countries should better increase their invests by magnitudes.

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jagged_circle@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Microgrids with solar panels on every residential home is key

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MoonlightFox@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
It was probably the best case scenario. This happening outside of winter or a war was pretty lucky.

Now they get to learn and improve.

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- Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Tbh, I heard it caused the UK government to actually revise it’s plan for such a scenario as well.
  
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  - MoonlightFox@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    I would think a lot of countries are tackling a lot of emergency scenarios at the moment.
    
    Increasing defence, digital sovereignty, robust power grid, basically just preparing for bad shit
    
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