Spain Blackout Blame Game Heats Up as Iberdrola Points to Grid

Green light to the 26 proposals that Iberdrola has made available to its shareholders at the General Shareholders' Meeting held this Friday in Bilbao. With overwhelming majority, the shareholders support 99.4% of the management led by Ignacio Sánchez Galán during the year of all records, where the electricity has reached a record profit of 5,612 million in the last year after investing 17 billion euros in the last period.During his intervention,…

The General Shareholders' Meeting of Iberdrola , like that of any energy company after the blackout of April 28, is particularly detailed. On this occasion, the president of Iberdrola , Ignacio Sánchez Galán , recalled how important the networks are and, above all, that they are reliable.It is an essential question for the company for two reasons.The first, because at the moment he has a public dispute with the system operator about where the pr…

The waters had been going down for days. Aelec, the electrical employer who led Iberdrola and Endesa, had already published a couple of hard communiqués about the way in which the investigations are being carried out for the biggest blackout in the history of Spain, which melted the Iberian Peninsula to black on April 28th. In the second one, particularly critical, with half a dozen direct references to Spanish Electric Network (REE). The episod…

Spain Blackout Blame Game Heats Up as Iberdrola Points to Grid

(Bloomberg) — Spain’s grid operator and the country’s largest utility took to public finger-wagging over their roles during the country’s biggest-ever blackout.

The huge power outage that struck Spain and Portugal at the end of April brought to light our dependence on technology at the expense of practical knowledge, indispensable in crisis or war situations. The analysis of journalist Filip Pavic in the Croatian daily newspaper "Jutarnji List".

MADRID, 31 (EUROPA PRESS) The PP has registered an initiative in Congress that requires an evaluation to analyze the impact and damage caused by the big blackout, including death, personal damage and damage to the affected economic sectors and the functioning of public services. It is a request that the Group [...] The entry The PP demands in Congress a report of the deaths and personal and economic damage that left the blackout aparece primero …