US EditionCnmc Opens 15 New Files to Several Companies in the Investigation of the Massive Blackout
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Last week, we reported in these pages that, finally, an official report—the Senate report—named those responsible for the massive blackout, almost a year later. And that it was time for political accountability. Read more
On April 28, 2025, Spain and Portugal ran out of light in just five seconds. An internal failure in the electrical system suddenly made 60% of the country's energy disappear, in a collapse as fast as it was difficult to explain. For days, the question was how something like this could happen in a modern network. A year later, the answer began to be more uncomfortable: it was not an isolated failure.The audios and documents analyzed during this y…
The CNMC technical services have expanded the number of sanctions cases in the framework of the investigation into the blackout suffered by the Iberian Peninsula on 28 April 2025, although from “days or periods” different from that day. After the twenty proceedings initiated just a week ago, the Commission announced on Friday the opening of another 35 sanctions procedures. Most of them Iberdrola, which has fitted 18, and Endesa, with 13 new ones…
Almost a year after the blackout, the regulator has not yet made the evaluation of the event that would allow it to move forward with compensation requests.
The National Commission on Markets and Competition (CNMC) has opened 15 new cases to Endesa, TotalEnergys, Engie, ContourGlobal and the nuclear association Ascó-Vandellos (of which Endesa and Iberdrola are part) in the framework of their investigation of what happened in the blackout of 28 April last year. The opening of these new files occurs one week after the regulator initiated about twenty cases sanctioning the Electric Network and companie…
The National Commission of Markets and Competition (CNMC) has announced this Friday the opening of 15 new sanctions cases for indications of “serious” violations in the framework of its investigations on the blackout of April 28, 2025, although the practices would have been produced on days other than this.Continue reading...
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