US EditionSpain Blackout Probe Faults Both Grid Operator and Utilities
- On April 28, 2025, a cascade failure caused the Iberian electricity grid to collapse, leaving Spain and Portugal without power for several hours.
- The outage followed a steady voltage increase and resulted from a combination of factors including poor scheduling by Red Eléctrica and improper actions by electricity companies.
- Minister Sara Aagesen reported that private generators failed to regulate voltage and some synchronous plants disconnected improperly, while Red Eléctrica showed a lack of foresight in capacity planning.
- An investigative committee analyzed 170 GB of data over two months, ruled out a cyberattack, and highlighted vulnerabilities and protocol breaches increasing future outage risks.
- Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez vowed to demand accountability from power companies, while opposition leader Alberto Nez Feijo criticized the government’s energy policy for leading Spaniards into darkness.
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The power cut had paralyzed for several hours throughout the Iberian peninsula at the end of April, allegedly caused by "a phenomenon of surges", according to a report released on Tuesday 17 June by the Spanish government.
The report of the committee set up by the Government to explain the reasons why on 28 April at 12 hours, 33 minutes and 30 seconds the electrical system went to zero and the supply of light ceased to be available for almost a whole day in Spain as a whole has ended after 49 days of research that the situation was due to the fact that “the system did not have sufficient dynamic voltage control capacity”, i.e. that it did not have sufficient capac…
The government spreads blame in its final report on the big blackout, but, above all and all, points to Red Electrica. Vice President Sara Aagesen has...
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