Greg Jackson

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647 appearances 38 recordings 2 series first heard May 2025 last heard 20 Sep

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We shouldn't try to convince people this.

We should be able to show it because it's available right now, right here.

I mean, look, first of all, we should be clear that we don't know yet.

Looking into major events like this, which have usually got multiple causes, takes time.

And we have to let the orderly process of investigation go on.

There was a major blackout that affected a very large region of the UK, including some of the southeast or most populous regions in 2019.

Investigations of that, and it was a less serious event than it's been in Portugal, took many, many weeks.

And facts are still emerging down the road.

So let's be really clear about that.

But I think we can draw a few generic lessons.

And there have been kind of comparable ones.

I mentioned one in the UK.

We, I think in 2000, was it 2016?

South Australia had a very major blackout with some very similar looking characteristics, in that case caused by storms.

There's some characteristics in common.

And of course, we've seen them in Texas as well.

And what they've got in common is an energy island with very little interconnection.

So I think only about 3% of Spain's total capacity is available via interconnectors.

I think technically there is actually a little bit of connection, but it's very, very, very skinny.

And Australia's got a similar thing, energy islands, because obviously the geography of Australia lends itself to that.

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