The cause of Monday’s extensive power outage of electricity supply in Spain and Portugal was not a cyber attackthe Portuguese government also announced the energy company Red Eléctrica de España (Ree) on Tuesday. In most of the territory of both countries, electricity supplies were renewed early on Tuesday morning, TASR reports, according to AFP and Reuters reports.
“Based on the analysis we have been able to do so far, we can exclude a cyber security incident in the facilities,” said at a press conference Director of Ree Eduardo Prieto. “There was no type of disruption in Red Eléctric’s management systems that could cause this incident,” added.
“In Portugal, we have no information related to cyber attacks or hostile acts at this stage,” stated Hoorca Vlady António Leitão Amaro For CNN TV Portugal. “It seems that there has been a problem in the network of energy transfer in Spain,” added. Public life slowly returned to normal on Tuesday in Spain and Portugal. Public transport was renewed and schools, hospitals or offices were reopened.
Millions of people on the Pyrenean Peninsula were affected on Monday and paralyzed key sectors such as transport or telecommunications. It also briefly hit the southwest of France, but according to the local industry Minister Marc Ferracci, the impact of the failure was “minimal”.
Spain is one of the largest renewable energy producers in Europe. Monday’s outage caused a discussion about the vulnerability and instability of solar or wind energy. Energy expert John Kemp told Reuters that the clear causes of the failure can be detected by investigators until several months.
“This region has one of the highest proportions of electricity production from renewable sources in the world, so the outage will be a case study (on reliability) of renewable resources as well as their re -triggering after extensive failure,” said the camp.
