US EditionInterim EU Report Blames Cascading Overvoltages for Iberian Blackout
A series of cascading overvoltages caused the outage, affecting 60 million people and disrupting essential services, the EU panel said in its April 28 investigation.
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Power outage in Spain and Portugal 'first known blackout caused by excessive voltage'
Huge swathes of Spain and Portugal, including major cities like Barcelona, Lisbon, Madrid, Porto and Seville, were affected by the power outage - Europe's most significant blackout in more than two decades.
In all of Spain and Portugal the electricity failed on April 28. There were massive traffic problems and the failure of telecommunications systems. Now there are new findings to the cause. The triggers were "lawinous overvoltages", said the president of the Association of European Transmission System Operators (Entso-E), Damian Cortinas. In case of an overvoltage the electrical voltage is too high in a network. Protection systems then switch off…
Iberian blackout was first known caused by excessive voltage, report says
The massive power outage that hit the Iberian Peninsula in April is the first known blackout caused by excessive voltage, the European network of electricity transmission system operators said in a report on Friday.
The blackout in Spain and Portugal was caused by a power surge, which according to a report was the worst fault in Europe in 20 years.
The breakdown, which was the "most serious in Europe in the last 20 years", could be linked to a phenomenon of "cascading surges", according to a survey conducted by European experts.
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