The European Commission (EC) is ready to contribute to the “thorough investigation” of electricity outages in Spain and Portugal. This was stated on Friday by the EU EU -Commissioner for Energy Dan Jorgensen on the social network, which was informed by the European editorial office (ENR), which also includes TASR.
Jorgensen recalled that The energy situation in Spain and Portugal has returned to normal and specified that this incident is the most serious in almost two decades across Europe. “We are ready to support Spain and Portugal in all possible ways, including a thorough investigation,” said the European Commissioner.
The outage of electricity in Spain and Portugal, according to him, raised concerns, Whether something similar can happen in other EU Member States. According to the ENR, the failure occurred at a time when the European Commissioner Jorgensen is in charge of linking European electricity networks. This should facilitate EU countries to share electricity cross -border There is a belief that this can reduce energy costs for citizens and businesses.
However, an extensive outage of electricity, however, leads to questions about whether other EU countries could be affected, If tighter interconnected electricity networks would allow Spain and Portugal, for example, to draw electricity from other countries in the case of new outages.
ENR warned that It is still not clear what caused a major power outage that was hit by Spain and Portugal on Monday (April 28). “It cannot be attributed to a specific energy source, such as renewable energy,” Jorgensen stressed in this context. And he added that Linked electricity systems, solidarity and green, locally produced energy are the key to making the European energy system more resilient.
