MADRID: Spain’s authorities on Wednesday (Might 28) denied a press report that an “experiment” on the nationwide energy grid brought on a large blackout that crippled the Iberian Peninsula one month in the past.
Authorities have been scrambling to search out solutions after the Apr 28 outage minimize telecommunications, halted transport and plunged cities into darkness throughout Spain and Portugal.
Conservative British every day newspaper The Telegraph reported on Friday, citing unnamed sources in Brussels, that Spanish authorities “had been conducting an experiment earlier than the system crashed, probing how far they might push reliance on renewables in preparation for Spain’s rushed phase-out of nuclear reactors from 2027”.
“The federal government appears to have pushed the tempo recklessly, earlier than making the required investments in a complicated Twenty first-century sensible grid able to dealing with it,” it added.
Requested in regards to the report in parliament, Ecological Transition Minister Sara Aagesen mentioned: “It’s false, completely false, that the federal government carried out any type of experiment on the grid previous to the outage.”
“It’s irresponsible to assign blame whereas the reason for the blackout stays beneath investigation. And it’s equally irresponsible to assert that the federal government was conducting experiments,” she added.
The pinnacle of Spain’s electrical energy operator REE, Beatriz Corredor, additionally known as the report “fully false” in an interview with Spanish every day newspaper La Vanguardia printed on Wednesday.
“There was no extra of renewable vitality” on Apr 28, nor quick circuits, overloads or cyberattacks on the grid, she mentioned, dismissing a number of extensively circulated theories.
As a substitute she mentioned it seems that producers of “typical” vitality akin to gasoline, nuclear and hydro vegetation “didn’t correctly regulate voltage” on the day of the outage.
She didn’t say if this performed a direct function within the blackout.
