After the blackout that caused a fall of energy throughout the peninsula, Andrea Ropero chatted on Tuesday in The intermediate With the engineer, energy expert, Jorge Morales.
Even without knowing very well what happened on April 28, the journalist wanted to ask the engineer Because Spain is more vulnerable to a blackout than other European countries.
“We are less interconnected with the rest. Usually he speaks of Spain and Portugal as an island of energy because the interconnections that make our system synchronized with northern Europe are weak, “explained Morales.
The engineer stressed that “the interconnection with northern Europe is important, since The European system is a large car, like a truck Huge that has a lot of inertia. ”
“Spain is a small part of that “truck”. This means that when a small part starts to rotate at a different speed, the large part tries to be coupled, “he added.
Morales said that, technically, “forecasts are made of a series of typical failures, but there are faults that exceed that level, automatically The systems are disconnected to avoid a greater failure“.
Morales continued the speech with the collaborator of Wyoming With a warning: “This can happen again. It is a mistake to say that Spain is immune to the blackouts.”.
“Having an infinitely reliable electrical system is infinitely expensiveIt would take infinite investments and we couldn’t pay for it, “said the Sexta engineer in the program.
And he concluded his interview with Ropero who said it “All electrical systems have a probability of failure. Although in Spain we have a good energy system, we have one of the major reliability rates in the world. “
