Almost a week has passed since that blackout that Founded the entire peninsula. That left Spain and Portugal without energy already part of southern France. Now, when the concrete causes that led to such an event are still unknown, the price of electric wholesale market, the so -called ‘pool’, The megavatio hour will descend to 11 euroswhich is a price of 32% lower that the one that marked on Saturday the cost of electricity.
Not only that, but also for 10 hours of the day the light will have A zero or even negative cost. It will be of the interval that goes from 09:00 to 19:00, from which a value of 3.52 euros will be re -registered the megavatio hour.
After the historical minimum of -10 euros on Thursday, the minimum of Sunday It will be -5.01 eurosfigure that will be repeated between 14:00 and 15:00 according to the provisional data of the Iberian energy market operator, the OMIE, which are collected in Europa Press.
The maximum pricein that sense, it will be registered between 00:00 and 01:00 on Sundaywhen the price will be 36.13 euros the megavatio hour, while between 21:00 and 23:00 the 35 will be reached.
The negative prices of the wholesale market, of course, do not move then in the receipt of the clients of the regulated rate, when there are some some Fixed costs for the consumer ranging from tolls, charges to certain system settings.
Six out of ten question government communication in the blackout
According to a CIS surveyafter having spent several days from that general blackout on the peninsula, almost 60% of Spaniards Consulted considers that the government’s communicative response during that day was insufficient. 28.4%, meanwhile, believes that the Executive did keep the population correctly.
In that sense, of all who think that the government’s response was insufficient, 38.4% look at the need to have needed “More information about the causes of the blackout”while for 26.3% the key was in “when the electricity supply was going to be replaced.” 24% believe they should have appeared with greater rush.
Instead, there is more communion when assessing how the population responded to the electrical crisis. According to the results of the CIS, almost 90% consider that its neighbors And the people with whom they agreed during the blackout behaved “good or very good.”
With the possible causes of the blackout, the population is also divided over the origin of the problem. Almost half of the population (46.2%) attributes it to an accident or failure of the electrical system, while 26.6% or blames a deliberate act How could it be a cyber attack.
There is also no consensus among respondents on the measures that the Government should take to prevent a fact of these characteristics from happening again. 44.2% ensure that to prevent another blackout of this type, the important thing would be to modernize the electricity grid, 41.7% believe that more in critical infrastructures should be investigated and 32.6% point out that increasing the number of generators installed in public entities and services would be the solution.
Cagigal, energy expert: “The day of the blackout there were three alerts since 11:00”
Carlos Cagigal, a specialist in Energy, has been in the Xplica, where he has confirmed that on April 28, there were up to three alerts from 11:00: “The control centers of the large operators, of the large facilities of electricity and renewable generation, have their own control centers connected to the network by which we access real data.”
“That day, from 11:00, There are two or three alerts what They are not enough to shoot the facilities And disconnect from network because they enter into the normative deviations of infrastructure, “he says.
And talk about several causes: “There has been a concatenation of causesIt is not just one. They will be known in the next few days. There is an abrupt over -supply on the network and causes the massive disconnection of renewables, by self -protection. “
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