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It is based on an article of the Electricity Law different from the one invoked two years ago by the CNMC, which allows an electrical company to intervene if there is "a certain risk to the maintenance of the supply" Aagesen puts the maximum fine to the Catalan electricity of the horrors and opens the way to disable it The Generalitat de Catalunya has also asked the Minister for the Ecological Transition, Sara Aagesen, to "value" the possibility…
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Spain’s mass blackout on 28 April, which left millions without electricity for hours and reportedly caused multiple fatalities, has triggered a political and legal firestorm that shows no signs of aba
The war of blame around the blackout of April 28th has escalated even further before the courts. Iberdrola brings to the courts the government for the worst incident suffered by the electricity system on the peninsula and which caused heavy economic and also human losses.
On April 30, two days after Spain went out of power for ten hours, the Executive announced the creation of a committee for the analysis of the electricity crisis through the National Security Council. This cabinet, led by the Ministry of Ecological Transition, has carried out an audit for weeks, and article 23 of the National Security Act, which requires the President of the Government to decree a “situation of interest for national security” in…
MADRID, 10 (EUROPA PRESS) Iberdrola has filed an action with the Supreme Court requesting a regulatory explanation on the creation by the Government of the Committee for the analysis of the circumstances that occurred in the electricity crisis of 28 April, which led to the electricity zeroing of the Iberian Peninsula, with [...] The entry Iberdrola asks the Supreme for a normative explanation on the legal guarantees of the blackout Committee app…
He asked the High Court for a "regulatory explanation" on the creation and operation of the body which analysed the causes of the blackout and blamed the electricity companies and the electricity network for their responsibilities.
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