Red Eléctrica España has ruled out that the power outage that occurred at 11.30 am (Canarian time) in the Iberian Peninsula, which affected Spain, except for the islands and autonomous cities, and Portugal, as well as part of the south of France, was related to a cyberattack.
According to the newspaper El País, REE has ruled out "in a preliminary way" that this is the cause and in the first conclusions has pointed to the "fall of solar generation". Meanwhile, the President of the Government of Spain, Pedro Sánchez, has announced that he will create an Independent Technical Analysis Commission to carry out his own analysis of the situation and will demand responsibilities from private operators for this electrical zero.
The Director of Services for the Operation of Red Eléctrica, Eduardo Prieto, stated at a press conference on Tuesday morning that the final conclusions will be soon because it is of national interest.
Meanwhile, he added that "until we have the information we cannot conclude anything", while he has made a call to the population to "not speculate on the origin and development of the incident" in social networks "when you do not have enough information".
Prieto has reported that at 12.33 in the morning (peninsular time) the service was stable and that only five seconds later "suffered an extreme disturbance". "It is compatible with the loss of generation in the southwest region of the Spanish peninsular system, which was "successfully overcome", he said. However, a second and a half later another "event compatible with the loss of generation occurred that degraded the conditions of the electrical system". "The system was not able to survive this extreme disturbance," he added.
This situation forced the isolation of the peninsular electrical system from the rest of the European electrical system to prevent the blackout from spreading throughout the rest of the European Union.
Finally, he pointed out that they are going to "adopt the necessary measures so that an accident of these characteristics cannot occur".
For its part, the State Meteorological Agency (Aemet) stated this Tuesday that "no unusual meteorological or atmospheric phenomenon" was detected in Spain, nor "sudden variations in temperature in the network of meteorological stations".
Thus, he has responded to the information disseminated from Red Eléctrica Portugal by the agency Reuters, who reported that the operator had attributed the blackout "to extreme temperature variations". Subsequently, these statements were denied to a Portuguese agency.
