US EditionThe biggest questions on Iberia's blackout answered by experts
- Nationwide power cuts hit Spain and Portugal.
- Portugal's grid operator blamed Spain's grid and rare atmospheric effects.
- Experts said interconnected EU grids can propagate failures between regions.
- Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said officials lacked conclusive information on reasons.
- The nationwide blackouts grounded much of both nations to a halt.
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39 Articles
Sánchez says he doesn't dissociate any hypothesis because of sudden energy loss
The leader of the Spanish Government said that a drop of energy in this dimension "has never happened" and that specialists are still trying to identify the origin and what triggered the "apang".
The biggest questions on Iberia's blackout answered by experts
National blackouts across Spain and Portugal ground much of the two nations to a halt, with Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez blaming a “strong oscillation” in the grid for the extraordinary incident.While Sanchez insisted the specific cause of the power failure was still unclear, his Portuguese counterpart, Luis Montenegro, said there was “no indication” that a cyber attack took place.Portugal’s grid operator REN went further, though, blamin…
Pedro Sánchez declares the “national emergency” for the blackout in the three communities that have asked for it
The president of the government, Pedro Sánchez, has announced after 18.00 this Monday that the executive has agreed to declare the “emergency of national interest” in the territories of the three autonomous communities that have requested it after the massive electricity blackout that suffers the Peninsula: Andalusia, Extremadura and Madrid —all of them, governed by the PP. According to the Law of the National System of Civil Protection, this de…
Sánchez urgently calls the National Security Council and Congress cancels all its activity
The president of the government, Pedro Sánchez, has convened an extraordinary meeting of the National Security Council (CSN) from 3 p.m. after the widespread blackout that has begun to affect all of Spain since 12 noon in the morning. La Moncloa confirms that the president previously went to the headquarters of Spanish Electric Network together with the third vice president of the government and minister for the Ecological Transition, Sara Aages…
The Government convenes the National Security Council: "We are working to know the origin of this incidence"
The government has just urgently called the National Security Council. The president of the executive, Pedro Sánchez, president of this extraordinary meeting, at which...
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