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Possibly some kind of rare cascade failure where it might have been on the edge for a while, and some small event happened that tripped things, similar to the american northeast blackout in 2003. High demand, plus a power station going offline meant more demand on some interconnects, which shorted on trees and were cut off, putting more load on other lines until the entire system collapsed
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Continental Europe Synchronous Area [1]

The whole Europe power grid are somewhat interconnected I wont be surprise if this knock on effect start knocking out other surrounding countries.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_Europe_Synchronous...

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Is that a risk with the small amount of interconnect capacity?
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Grids are widely interconnected. Problems on one grid can and do cascade to another.
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Ah, yes. The dubious and evil Perro Sánchez.
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Woof!
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