Heat Wave Threatens Collapse of Electricity Grid in Europe

July 4—With recent temperatures between 30 and 37ºC, the renewable-ridden European energy grid has been put under severe stress. In Italy, Florence and Bergamo were hit by a blackout July 1, which luckily lasted no longer than one hour. Blackouts were reported July 2 throughout the country, in Milan, Genua, Rome and other Italian cities, hitting sections of those cities and lasting from a few minutes to a few hours.

A lot of sun is good for solar panels but not for the grid. A peak in the demand of electricity for air conditioners overloaded the grid, which locally collapsed. Fortunately, Italy has a decent reserve of conventional (gas-driven) plants in stand-by that can be instantly activated, but the Florence and Bergamo episodes are a warning. This exposes the absurdity of the so-called energy transition: the more renewables you build, the more conventional plants you must have as a reserve.

In the coming Schiller Institute conference in Berlin mid July, Professor Franco Battaglia will demonstrate how this energy transition cannot work and that decarbonization will never occur. Instead of recognizing this truth, the green regime propaganda media have increased the volume of their climate change screeching.

As usual in a blackout, nothing works-- traffic lights, elevators, etc. cease operation. The heat wave is not forecast to stop in the next week and the most fragile sections of the European grid, such as the Spanish one, might collapse again.