The Spanish Competition Authority (CNMC) announced on Tuesday that in turn opened an investigation into the giant electricity failure that affected the Iberian Peninsula on April 28, whose origin remains unknown. “The CNMC will carry out its own investigation as an independent regulator,” said its president Cani Fernández during an audience in the Congress of Deputies, added that the public organization had begun to gather “all the necessary information” in the course of the breakdown.
This survey is added to the launched on April 29 by the Ministry of Ecological Transition, as well as the coordinated by the European Network of Electricity Transport Networks (Enso-E) and the one open by Spanish justice in a possible “computer sabotage”. “The CNMC provides independent technical knowledge” and “intervenes at a different level of other actors, although in a complementary way”, justified in front of the deputies of Canni Fernández, specifying that their organization “had already sent data requests” to the companies in the sector.
The Spanish energy mixture agreed with its “usual” level according to the CNMC
According to the authorities, the equivalent of 60% of the consumption of Spanish electricity – 15 gigawatts – disappeared in the five -second space during the breakdown of April 28, which immersed Spain and Portugal in chaos for long hours. Several hypotheses have been presented to explain this cut, including that of a cyber attack, which was considered unbelievable by the Spanish electricity network (REE). A network failure generated by excess solar energy production has also been mentioned.
On April 28, photovoltaic production was “high”, but did not exceed “the maximum affected values in certain previous days,” said Cani Fernández on Tuesday, asking for caution on the possible responsibility of renewable energies in the incident. “Although the 28 was a day of high renewable energy production, no anomaly or particularity that the incident could explain,” he insisted on the CNMC manager, for whom the combination of energy of Spain was that day according to his usual level. “A message beaten for several days by the Minister of Ecology Sara Aagsaen, for whom” all hypotheses are open. “
As part of this survey, requests for information were sent by the National Cybersecurity Institute (INCIBE) to energy companies, including small companies, potentially more vulnerable to cyber attacks, according to a source close to the file. According to this source, this request is part of the normal procedure, all the roads have to be provided.
Source: BFM TV
