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Apartment in Lisbon on blackout
“Combination of factors” caused overload. Cyber attack away.
Resulted from a “Combination of factors” Which caused a high voltage overload that Spain’s electrical system was unable to absorb for various reasons, including “bad planning” of the electric operator, the Spanish government revealed Tuesday.
In addition to failures by the Spanish power operator at the management and planning level, There was also flaws in the response of other power operators and distributors In Spain, with suspicions of non -compliance with the protocols planned for voltage overload situations, according to the Minister of the Ecological Transition of Spain, Sara Aagesen.
“The generating units that should control the tension have not absorbed all the expected reactive power in a context of high tensions,” said the minister, cited by, stressing that the reports of the report are not “judgment” for these operators.
The minister also said that the commission to investigate the blackout in the Iberian peninsula created by the Spanish government concluded, on the other hand, that There was no cyberatoque On April 28, as the Spanish executive had previously advanced.
Sara Aagesen was speaking at a press conference in Madrid at the end of the Spanish Council of Ministers Weekly, in which she presented the findings of the April 28 April Investigation Commission created by the Spanish government.
The Minister of the Environmental Transition in May, in May, that the total elimination policy of the Spanish nuclear power plants until 2035 and the recent increase in clean energy on the network was not the culprits of the blackout that also left Portugal in the dark on April 28.
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.
