César Franco, president of industrial engineers: "The system was not prepared for a cascade failure like the one that happened"

It is not easy to explain in a clear way what happened just a week ago, when a collapse of the network, of which the causes are still unknown, left the entire Iberian Peninsula without light. In an interview given to Economic Information César Franco, president of the General Council of Industrial Engineers, tries to put some light on this crisis. He considers that Spain has an important task to go from the point of view of investment -especiall…

In an interview with the daily "El País" on Sunday, May 4, the Spanish Minister of the Environment, Sara Aagesen, states that it is not yet possible to determine what caused the breakdown last Monday.

Sara Aagesen: blaming the renewable energies of the ‘apagon’ is an irresponsibility, The third vice president and minister for the ecological transition and the demographic challenge of the government, Sara Aagesen, has again defended this Sunday the need for the green agenda in Spain and has asked not to point out the renewables after the blackout last April 28. In an interview granted to El País, Aagesen has followed the tone of the executive …

After such a major disruption and a long-term power outage covering a large area, such as the one that occurred on Monday, April 28, 2025 in the Iberian Peninsula, it is completely legitimate to ask whether something like this could happen to us, and what we can learn from the problems of the Spanish and Portuguese. Can we also formulate this question as whether the situation is better or worse in our country? I have already partially touched on…

The Minister of Ecological Transition, Sara Aagesen, admitted the possibility of an anomaly in photovoltaic installations in the southwest of the country

The Spanish minister for the Ecological Transition warned this Sunday that "many days will pass" before knowing the origin of the great blackout in the Iberian peninsula that paralyzed the country last Monday. "We are talking about many days," said Sara Aagesen in an interview published on Sunday in the newspaper El País. "All hypotheses are open," she said, even that of the "cyberataque." As for the role that renewable energies could have playe…