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Agreed. Far too much faff for such little reward, and so many better alternatives.

Indeed, and the most important thing will be for us to learn from yesterday, if this is proven to be the cause, in the hope that it doesn't happen again. Of course the thousands of people over here who already self rely on renewables were ironically the ones who fared the best. There are people who live full time off grid who didn't even notice the outage, especially if they are using Starlink

We have a 2025 Renault Captur full hybrid and we love it. We looked initially at the Austral but in the end decided just didn't need anything quite that big so replaced our 2014 diesel Captur with a new one, but from what I remember they were almost identical. My husband wanted the Alpine but we settled for the Techno with every added extra except the panoramic sunroof, it ended up cheaper but better spec'd, at least for us in Spain.

Over here it is being suggested that yesterday's outage may have been caused by an over reliance on renewable energy, albeit not yet confirmed https://www.elconfidencial.com/economia/2025-04-29/el-sistema-electrico-espanol-salto-por-los-aires-por-un-exceso-de-confianza-en-la-energia-solar_4118613/

Somehow managed to keep my job after eventually being caught leaving an hour early, every day, for years.

I was pretty impressed when he did it, but even more so that we actually had all this stuff in our garage

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Thankfully my Kindle was fully charged so we didn’t need to resort to anything else My daughter and her boyfriend on the other hand...!

Finally all is back to normal. Electicity went off at 12:30 yesterday but we still had a phone signal and data so could keep up with the news, and my husband rigged something up to charge our phones from a solar panel. Lost our signal at around 9pm so we were literally in the dark about what was going on We cooked on the BBQ for dinner, thankfully my wine was still cold, and the weather was mercifully about as good as it could be here to have no power. Electricity came back on at 06:30 this morning but still no wifi, that came back on at around 11:30 this morning, and phone signal reappeared at about 1pm. Solar lights that we were able to bring indoors when it got dark, the gas bbq and a half charged power bank made things easier, as did the solar panel we retrieved from the garage and my husband's skill at making a charger with an old battery. It was a bit scary if I'm honest, we are used to the occasional power cut over here, but obviously nothing like on this scale before, and even when the electricity goes out we still have our data. We were obviously much luckier than some others, especially those people travelling, the only casualty was work, goodness knows how much this will have cost businesses. Make sure you are ready for something similar people, you never know!

Apparently the cause has not yet been identified, and we've just heard it could take hours to restore. BBQ it is tonight then

Much of mainland Spain and Portugal is currently without electricity it seems. Interesting.

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It's in the Daily Mail so I'm going to assume it's both A bollocks and B shit stirring nonsense to whip up the Reform voting racists into a frenzy, which seems to be their go to Other than that I have no idea as I'm refusing to open the link