The day after the huge blackout that made Spain for 24 hours in the last century, the Spaniards found the light, Internet connections, telephone communications and credit cards. They struggle to recover a normality in railway travel but, above all, remain in the dark on the causes of the historian Blackout, caused by the “most serious accident of the last 20 years in Europe”, as the European Commissioner for Energy, Dan Jorgensen, defined it. An episode on which Premier Pedro Sanchez has appointed a commission of investigation, to also shed light on the role of operators. Returning not to exclude any hypothesis, while Audiencia National, which deals with terrorism, has opened an office file. Spanish electricity network (ree), the company participated at 20% by the state that manages the service, has for its part excluding a cyber attack in the installations and the control system. While the state meteorological agency (AMET) dismantled the hypothesis of “an atmospheric atmospheric event”, advanced by the electric operator of Portugal, which could have caused faults to high voltage lines.
Also eliminated the human error, according to the director of Ree’s operating services, Eduardo Prieto, the key of the enigma is in a handful of seconds, five in all, in which “there were two consecutive imbalances” in the energy production network from photovoltaic sources in the southwest Iberian, possible causes of blackout. That at 12:33 pm yesterday ceased the entry of 15 gigawatt of electricity in the network, causing the collapse of the Spanish system, of the Portuguese one and the detachment of the connection with France. “It will be necessary to verify the causes, analyze the power, the location, the conditions in which the imbalance was produced,” said Prieto, claiming not to have “sufficient data to get to more certain conclusions”. After the many meetings of the National Security Council, Sanchez insisted on the need to “verify in detail”, what happened “in those five seconds”.
But he assured that “there was no problem of excess of production by renewables”, also denying that the great darkness was caused by the lack of nuclear energy. And he announced the creation of a commission of investigation, led by the Ecological Transition Ministry, which “will investigate the causes of the Blackout”. The Spanish Prime Minister has focused on the “relevant responsibilities of private operators”. “We will adopt measures for what happened on Monday never happened again”, he promised. A assessment of responsibility that, after the crisis, will have to settle the high costs of the damage. caused by the blackout to millions of citizens and companies. in addition to the death of five people, indirectly linked to the interruption of the electricity. Spanish critical infrastructures “is the hypothesis of investigation by the investigating judge of the Audiencia Nacional, responsible for the crimes of terrorism, who opened the due dossier on the case. In an ordinance, the investigating judge requested the two reports in which, “within the end of 10 days, the causes that caused the blackout,” in the term, the two -day term of 10 days “. Meanwhile, Brussels has given three months in Madrid, from the revocation of the state of emergency, to present a report of the results of his internal investigation, to define the impact of the blackout and the progress of the restoration of the energy system. In the meantime, a panel of EU experts – which will also be part of Acer, the agency for the cooperation of energy regulators – will open an independent investigation to present “a technical report of the facts that will examine the causes of the accident within six months” and propose a series of recommendations.