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Apartment in Lisbon on blackout
Spain investigates 756 million data on the blackout that left the Iberian Peninsula to the dark last week. It is “manipulation” to blame renewables, says Sánchez.
Spain’s Prime Minister said on Wednesday that he will take time until there is an explanation for last week on the Iberian Peninsula, as it is necessary to analyze 756 million data provided by the electrical system operators.
It is a “process that will take time,” said Pedro Sánchez in the Spanish parliament.
“On April 29, we asked Ree and electricity companies to analyze their data and a technical analysis committee was created, which has two working groups: one on cybersecurity and another that investigates this issue from a technical point of view. We also requested an independent report to Europe, although part of it will only be known six months from now“Said Sánchez, although the Spanish government has three months to report Brussels the causes of the energy crisis, it was known last week.
The government leader stressed that the electricity generation and distribution companies were requested in Spain all the data generated and registered in 4,200 system units between 12:15 and 12:35 locations on April 28.
Citizens want to know “and the government too”
Sánchez returned to promise, as he did several times last week, that the government will “reach the background” of this subject to know what happened, “take on and ask for political responsibilities” and adopt measures not to happen again. Insisting on what this is a complex subject, he demanded and promised “rigor, caution, prudence and absolute transparency.”
“I can ensure that Everything that is discovered will become public ”he said, after saying that the Spanish executive “is fully conscious” that citizens want to know what happened “and the government too.”
“We will not close any false debate, we will not rush to the conclusions,” he added, before stressing that “to do the work well, the technicians need time” and that “the responsibility of the government is to respect the complexity of the subject” and “not generate noise and debates, as they are already doing some.”
One thing is certain: it was not the renewable
In this regard, he asked the Spaniards to distrust the speeches trying to explain the blackout with a debate between renewable and nuclear energies.
“Right now, There is no empirical evidence that says the incident was caused by excessive renewables Or lack of nuclear centers in Spain, ”he said in a speech in which he accused right and far-right political parties of embarking, without data or evidence, in a“ ideological agenda ”and the interests of companies that owned the Spanish nuclear centers, which should end all between 2027 and 2035.
Also Sara AagesenMinister of the environmental transition ensured that the total elimination of Spanish nuclear power plants until 2035 and the recent increase in clean energy in the network is not the culprits.
“Not even the best experts know the causes,” he said in the Senate, quoted by. “Of course we will analyze the hypothesis of a cyberthyle or a failure in the safety of digital systems,” and ensured that Spain has “worked with France, Portugal and the European Commission” so that more robust interconnections will reach as soon as possible.
Sánchez also defended the bet on renewable energy, which said it was not only from the left government of Spain, but a vast “global consensus” in Europe and the world.
The Spanish government leader stressed that these energies increase national and European sovereignty, are more competitive and allowed to lower electricity prices in the Iberian Peninsula in recent years, and respond to climate change.
Spain will not change, so nothing in the strategy of betting on renewable energy And it will continue to invest and promote investment in infrastructure that allow and improve the transition to green energy, he said.
The blackout, which left without electricity the entire territory of Portugal and continental Spain, occurred at 11:33 of Lisbon (12:33 in Madrid) and originated in Spanish territoryaccording to the authorities of both countries, without the causes being yet known.
Sánchez reiterated that they were identified Three electricity generation failures Seconds before the blackout in southern Spain (the first) and then two more in the southwest of the country, with the investigation trying to find out now whether these disturbances are related between them and why the Iberian electrical system turned off at that time.
