Official Cause Of Unprecedented Spain-Portugal Blackout Is Unveiled

MADRID, June 18 (Reuters) – Spanish network operator Redia, objected to the findings of a government report. Spain and Portugal on April 28th.

Redeia Operation Chief Concha Sanchez also said that on Wednesday, a news briefing, his own investigation, the voltage in the system was within legal limits, despite the discovery of anomalies to interrupt the connection of electrical power plants on April 28 and discovered an abnormal growth in the demand network.

Later, in the first second of the blackout, it is a combined loop plant that should stabilize the system, which is interrupted when it should not have it.

“Based on our calculation, there were sufficient voltage control capabilities planned by RedEIA,” he said. “If traditional power plants had done their jobs to control the voltage, there would be no darkening.”

The government Report published on Tuesday The miscalculation of Saideia was one of the factors that prevented the ability to cope with the voltage increase of the grill.

According to Redeia’s Sanchez, the system was definitely in normal conditions ”just before the system is darkened.

President Beatriz Corredor will publish his own report on the causes of Redeia outage.

(Reporting by Pietro Lombardi, Writing by Inti Landauro, editing by Andrei Khalip)