Spain and Portugal created a articular “support group intended to identify the cause of the giant electricity failure that affected the Iberian Peninsula on Monday. “We are going to collaborate to identify the causes of the incident and implement the necessary measures for this to happen again,” said the Spanish minister for ecological transition, Sara Aagesen, cited in a press release from the Government of Madrid after a videoconferences meeting with her counterpart, the Minister of Environment and Portuguese Energy, María da Graça Carvalho.
The two officials also agreed to act in a “coordinated” way regarding the information that their countries will transmit to European agencies. Four days after the energy cut that immersed the two countries in chaos for several hours, authorities and experts have not yet advanced an official explanation about their causes. “It is very important to collect all the information to understand what was the origin of the incident that, as they know, happened in the Spanish network” of electricity transport, said Portuguese minister when reaffirming the position taken by his government from the first hour.
Cybernetics or incident in a solar production site in Spain
According to the Madrid authorities, the equivalent of 60% of the consumption of electricity in Spain, or 15 gigawatts, disappeared in the five second space during the fault, which occurred on Monday at 10:33 am, a phenomenon qualified as “unpublished” by the Executive. Several hypotheses have been presented to explain the cut, including that of a cyber attack, in which Spanish justice has opened an investigation. However, this track is considered unbelievable by the Manager of the Spanish Electricity Network (REE), who said Tuesday he had seen “without intrusion” in his control systems.
In his event report, Ree indicated that he had identified the possible origin of this collapse of two different incidents in a second and a half interval, one of which has been able to affect a solar production site in the southwest of Spain.
Source: BFM TV
