Electric red excludes a computer security accident as a reason for blackout in Spain
After analyzing the blackout occurred on Monday at 12.30 in the Iberian peninsula and according to the still preliminary conclusions, Red Electric concludes that “there was no intrusion in the control systems that could have caused the accident”.
The operation of the peninsular electrical system was already 100% restored to 11.15After the blackout recorded on Monday and this left most of the day without electricity to most of Spain, according to the updated electrical data.
Once the first peak of the question
In particular, the proof of this standardization of the peninsular electrical system is that This morning the tip of the demand for 28,677 megawatt was approved (MW) at 8.35 in the morning. The next peak of the application is scheduled for 9.00-10.00 Tonight, with 31,200 MW, added the system operator.
During a press conference, the director of services for the functioning of electric electricity, Eduardo Prieto, declared “the good news” that the electrical system is currently “operating in a standardized way, operating in a stable and correct way”.
In the same way, with the analyzes conducted so far, the Red Electric Manager has excluded “a computer security accident in the Electricity Red structures”.
“In this sense, since yesterday, we had the collaboration of the Iirbe, CNI, and this morning we have been able to conclude that there was no intrusion in the electric grid control systems that could have caused the accident,” he added.
Prieto evaluated the plans to replace the service performed since yesterday who, despite being the first time they were performed in their entirety, have shown “their effectiveness, their correct design and application”.
“The replacement times, necessarily in these types of complex processes, which cover a very wide geographical extension, with hundreds of generators, is complex and long. Obviously we would have liked that they would be as short as possible, but the innate complexity of these types of processes makes it delay for a while, the necessary hours,” he said.
Knowing the causes “will take time with certainty”
As for the causes, he assured him There was a first production oscillation in the south -Peninsular west that could be overcome and a second and a half and then there was a great disappearance of renewable productionTo which the disconnection with France has been combined.
“The system was not able to survive this extreme disorder and zero was born“Prieto explained, who underlined that knowing the causes” will take time “because” we are outstanding “to receive a lot of information from the distribution centers.
