Power outages in Spain and Portugal are still a mystery, but leaders swear to solve it and prevent recurrence

The Spanish government set up a special commission to understand why Mass power outage In fact, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, who hit the whole country, stressed that there was no potential for Tuesday. He united people who needed to prevent a broader European Union, the repetition of the deficiency of the electricity network of most of the Iberian peninsula and neighboring Portugal and the remaining people in the dark until Tuesday.

“The necessary measures will be taken to ensure that this does not happen again,” Sánchez, during a press conference in Madridd, after a few hours after the lights returned.

Monday was still the most difficult to hit Spain and Portugal, which is unexplained, unexplained power outages. According to Associated Press, about 49 million inhabitants saw about 15 Gigawatts of the country’s generation – about 60% of the typical real time in the nation – in just five seconds, starting after Monday.

Spanish power distributor Tuesday, 99% of Lisbon in the neighboring Portuguese in the neighboring Portugal, said that many residents of the capital, Madrid and Lisbon.

Offices were closed on the Iberian Peninsula and remained traffic in chaos on Monday. Along with airports, trains and subway systems, a suspension, the ATMs stopped the function and fell down many mobile phone networks. Radios with gas-fired generators and batteries flew outside the shelves.

What caused power outages in Spain and Portugal?

Sánchez said that he was behind a problem in a broader European network called “strong laying” or not approved by the Spanish leader or the country’s electricity providers, or an unprecedented problem is not excluded. On Tuesday, Sánchez, on Monday, nuclear energy excluded a possible issue on the lack of production capacity. About 20% of the Spanish authority comes from nuclear plants.

Ren, Portuguese National Electric Network Operator, Monday, this was a rare atmospheric phenomenon in the unexplained Spain in excessive temperature change, but no previous day was not detected “unusual meteorological or atmospheric phenomenon” or unexpected dramatic temperature change.

Eduardo Prieto, who is responsible for operations for Spain’s Red Elektrica, is not known on Monday, not an unprecedented, “exclusive and extraordinary” of electricity.

The company said on Monday that this was not a sign of a cyberheector that caused the cause of the criminal, but Sánchez said he would continue the possible investigation.

Antonio Kota, EU President of the Council of Europe, Tuesday said “No cyberho’s signs”. Teresa Ribera, one of the presidents of the European Commission, was also exploited by the provocation, but he recently called “one of the most serious episodes celebrated in Europe.” ”

Power outage was second to hit Europe over a month. London’s Heathrow Airport is one of the busiest people in Europe, closed After the local power substation for Most March 20, after he went in flames. The cause of this fire remains under investigation, but London Metropolitan Belediyespor, said he did not seem suspicious.

No officials said that the fire in London or the fire in the Iber peninsula, and both the events in the Iberian peninsula, which supported the Western European peoples of Russia, which targeted the Western European peoples of Russia.

In early November, a source that approved the issue of CBS, the United States and European law enforcement agencies worked together investigate In July 2024, the exploding alarm facilities were a larger part of the Logistics Centers in Germany and Britain Operation managed by Russian military intelligence In the Russian government agencies, high-ranking officials or foreigners operating in Russia’s accepted interest.

There are also numerous events Undersea cablesBasically, mainly after Russian or Chinese-related vessels, more power or telecommunications information, cut or disrupted or violated in recent years.

European officials are part of the alleged provocative measures against Ukrainian support and a Russian “Hybrid war against democratic enemies in the West.

European Union’s ambassador to the United States Jovita Neliupšienė, CBS News ’60 minutes’ told In November, the Russian provocation, not only in Russia, but with the assassination of political enemies In European landsPresident Vladimir Putin’s “order of order, stability, test” and the ability to respond to such transactions was the proposal of the “stability, stability of the body.”

“All these provocations, cyber or critical infrastructure attacks occur in the EU and NATO territory. How much they continue … can move.”