The black-outs in New Zealand are caused by the poor electricity system management – and it is getting worse. The issues are getting worse every year. But North American British, and European grids have very similar problems, about which I have been writing (with solutions) for almost ten years. And the Balkans had widespread black-outs in June for similar reasons.

The cause of these issues is unfit-for-purpose electricity system market designs, structures and regulations, which have unsuitable for decades, but systemic long lead times and increasingly desperate System Operation actions have hidden their symptoms until now. This is summarised in a brief 2-page blog, which has links for more information:

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