Blackout: Only 1% of companies escaped losses. They want compensation and point 4 culprits

Energy failure will have cost 2 billion euros to Portuguese companies. Iberian governments and criticized energy grids.

The electricity of 28 April may have cost 2,000 million euros to companies national, with 99% of societies saying they have been affected.

This is one of the conclusions of an inquiry from the Portuguese Industrial Association (AIP).

In a statement, AIP said 71% of companies “reported failure to commitments to customers such as deliveries and services”, and the results show “weaknesses in the energy plan”, showing that 57% of companies do not have emergency energy systems, such as generators or ‘backup’ batteries.

José Eduardo Carvalho, president of AIP, added that 95% of companies who responded to the inquiry were affected by the blackout, confirming that almost all (99%) had financial losses. Most were affected in production for 4 to 8 hours that Monday.

“A transforming industry It suffered a lot, had a total stop of its production lines and equipment. Consequences: malfunctions, wasted production, failures with commitments to customers… ”, reported in.

The president of the AIP also commented that the companies need to improve the energy plan – Energy redundancy systems, generators and reserve batteries.

According to the results of the inquiry, most companies (67%) considers that must be compensatedwith the most defended forms of compensation to be “ direct compensation (43%) ea reduction of tariffs or taxes about energy (32%) ”.

The inquiry also reveals “a strong consensus on liability, with 93% of companies to argue that Governments of Portugal and Spain must investigate responsibilities and assume compensation. ”

Also REE – Electric Network of Spain and REN – National Energy Nets They are considered by the companies “the main responsible for the damage caused by the blackout.”

The inquiry also showed that “49% of the companies considered presenting complaint Formal, while 42% do not intend to do so. ”

The inquiry into the impacts of the blackout that affected the Iberian Peninsula on April 28 alert 1,710 business companies, between May 2 and 6, 2025 throughout the national territory.