The dirty secret is of course that the Danish power grid would be totally unusable without the base power provided from Sweden and Norway.
They almost suffered a catastrophic shutdown a year or two ago and the situation has not improved
They almost suffered a catastrophic shutdown a year or two ago and the situation has not improved
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_Europe_Synchronous... exists for good reason.
But they did get a big warning shot in 1989 and 2011, and ignored those lessons for cost reasons. A couple hundred people died.
Cost is always a valid reason!
> A couple hundred people died.
Looks like about a thousand people in the US die of hypothermia every year, on average. So this happens frequently in states that aren't in its own interconnection, too.
In their powerless homes?
I don't doubt people get lost in the woods. But that's not some systemic failure.