Great Blackout and Cyberratak?
Power failure that occurred on Monday, 28 April 2025 was the largest event of this type in history on the Iberian Peninsula. She touched both Spain and Portugal causing huge economic damage, but also a threat to life. Most likely as a result of Blackout At least 5 people were killed in Spainmany citizens were also trapped on trains or elevators.
At 12:33, 15 GW produced energy was lost in five seconds, which corresponded to 60 percent. power in the system. Energy operators have rejected the possibility of cyber attack, but the Spanish government is not going to exclude such a hypothesis yet. Also, the Spanish criminal court initiated an investigation to determine whether “computer sabotage act” could be committed “against critical Spanish infrastructure”.
Independent investigation
The Prime Minister of Portugal Luís Montenegro insists on an independent investigationwhich stated that his government would ask the EU agency for cooperation between energy regulation bodies to conduct an “independent audit of electrical systems of countries affected by a disaster to fully determine the reasons for this situation.”
The head of the Spanish government, Pedro Sánchez, sees a chance in cooperation with private operators. President of the National Red Eléctric transmission network operator and representatives companies Iberdrola, Endes, EDP, Acciona Energia and Naturgy were to appear at an urgent meeting with the head of the Spanish government to discuss Monday Blackout.
The reasons are known?
Sánchez in a speech to the nation announced the creation of a committee examining the incidentas well as a desire to better understand the role of private energy companies. He also reacted by publishing post to X. “I thanked them for their work in favor of quickly restoring deliveries, and also asked them to cooperate with the government and independent organizations in order to identify the reasons for the incident. We must introduce the necessary improvements when it comes to guaranteeing supplies and the future competitiveness of our system” – he wrote regarding cooperation with private companies.
In turn, in an interview with the radio Beatriz Corredor, president of Red Eléctrica, stated that the company is known for the cause of the failure, However, the analysis of a huge amount of data is still underway. She added that she would not resign, because it would mean that no proper actions were taken.
Accusations in the shadow of a failure
Opponents of the current Prime Minister of Spain accuse him of submitting renewable energy over the nuclearwithout seeing any consequences and to transfer responsibility for a failure to private energy companies.
Representatives of the Conservative People's Party (PP) They accuse the creation of “information block” related to the failure. They also call him to appear in connection with this case through the Congress and disclose all information. – The government did not take any responsibility, did not get involved in self -criticism and did not even apologize to people – the politicians of the People's Party said. For the prime minister (derived from the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party, PSOE) The criticism of the right -wing VOX group also fell. This site also accused him of reluctance to nuclear energy, which in a similar situation could secure the country.
The prime minister rejected the criticismstating that “those who connect this incident with a lack of nuclear energy, they honestly lie or demonstrate their ignorance.” In his opinion, the production of energy from nuclear power plants is not more resistant to this type of event. – Combining what happened on Monday, with renewable energy sources is not correct. Renewable energy sources work in a stable way – she expressed a similar opinion of Beatriz Corredor.
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Source: Guardian