The collapse of giant electricity that affected Spain and Portugal on April 28 began with an incident in Granada that led to chain reactions in stations in Seville and Badajoz, Spanish Minister of Energy said Wednesday. Although several investigations are being carried out to determine the causes and origin of the breakdown, Sara Aagesen specified before a parliamentary commission that the cause of the initial incident had not yet been established.
The researchers, on the other hand, discussed the hypothesis of a cyber attack against the operator of the Ree Network, an imbalance between supply and demand or insufficient capacity of the network, he added.
Millions of data to analyze
This is the first time that Spanish authorities have provided information on the geographical origin of failure, in this case in Andalusia. According to Sara Aagesen, chain incidents in Granada, Seville and Badajoz led to a loss of production of 2.2 Gigaveatians of electricity, which caused a series of network disconnections throughout the country.
The investigation will take time and it is likely that there are no simple answers to what seems to be a complex problem, he warned to the minister. “We analyze millions of data,” he said.
Source: BFM TV
