A massive power outage that reports from Portugal and Spain on Monday and has briefly affected part of France, could have caused “Rare atmospheric phenomenon”, and could take a week. This is claimed by the Portuguese energy company Ren, writes TASR citing Sky News.
The outage according to Ren was caused by a failure in the Spanish electric network related to the “rare atmospheric phenomenon”. Indeed, as a result of extreme temperature fluctuations in Spain, there were reportedly “anomalous oscillations” in the leadership of very high voltage.
Ren further states that it is so -called. induced atmospheric variations that have led to oscillations and these caused disorders of synchronization between electrical systems, This resulted in failures throughout the interconnected European network. The Portuguese Energy Network Operator adds that Given the complexity of the problem, it could take up to a week to fully return to normal functioning.
The exact cause of the power failure, which paralyzed urban public transport, caused huge congestion and delays of flights, was not immediately known. The authorities could not explain it even at least an hour after at about 12.30 h CEST, but According to the Portuguese National Center of Cyber Security, there was no indication that it was caused by cyber attacks.
Similarly, in the meantime, they also expressed themselves President of the European Council António Costa and Portuguese Prime Minister Luis Montenegro. They too stated that There is no indication that it is such an attack.
Costa said he is in contact with the leaders of both affected countries trying to detect the cause of the failure and restore energy supply. Montenegro, on the other hand, explained that the authorities will try to recover supplies in the coming hours, expecting them to succeed in Monday. Sky News recalls that it has said so just after the aforementioned Ren forecast, in accordance with which the failure could last a week.
Spanish energy company Red Eléctrica At the same time She informed that in some parts of the northern, southern and western Spain, electricity supplies have already been renewed. The company had previously announced that the recovery could take six to ten hours. Some Spanish regional leaders however calls for a state of emergencyamong them, for example, the head of the regional government of Andalusia Juanm Moreno.
In France, several households in the French Basque Country, located at the Spanish border, hit the outage for just a few minutes. The operator of the RTE network has refuted some previously media reports according to which The outage was caused by a fire in the south of France. According to RTE, the Spanish network was automatically – about an hour – disconnected from the European network.
