The blackout analysis committee that last Monday left the Peninsula without Light celebrates its second meeting chaired by the Third government and minister for the ecological transition and the demographic challenge, Sara Aagesen.
At the meeting, which takes place at the Electricity Headquarters, it is intended Determine the causes of the electrical crisis. The first meeting of the group, created by the Government, took place on Wednesday afternoon, in the Ministry for Ecological Transition.
This committee has already received “much” of the claimed information To companies in the electricity sector, but “given the technical complexity” to access certain data, a part of them are still being collected by companies.
From this Friday, Spain also has a follow -up group together with Portugal, which was also affected by the blackout, to identify the causes of the incident and prevent it from happening again, as announced by the Ministry for the ecological transition and the demographic challenge in a statement, after a meeting between Aagesen, and the Portuguese minister of Environment and Energy, María Da Graça Carvalho.
The committee requested details about the hours before the blackout
This week the Committee claimed new information requests aimed at the agents of the sector “to complete the reconstruction of the incident”. Specifically, details have been requested on the hours before the blackout and on the supply replacement process. Red Electrica has already completed the delivery of all data that the commission had requested, as reported on Thursday the company.
The committee is Integrated by representatives of several departments Ministerial: Presidency of the Government (through the Department of National Security), Ministry of Defense (through the CNI and the General Staff), Ministry of Interior (through the National Center for Critical Infrastructure Protection and the Office of Cyber Coordination) and Ministry of Digital Transformation (through digital security).
Organizations such as the National Cybersecurity Institute (INCIBE) and the Nuclear Safety Council (CSN) also participate. It has also joined the director of Energy of the National Commission of Markets and Competition (CNMC), Rocío Prieto. At the beginning of the meeting, the president of Red Eléctrica, Beatriz Corredor, has also intervened, but then has been withdrawn since the company is not part of the analysis committee.
The CIS will publish a survey with the opinion of the Spaniards
Also this Saturday the Center for Sociological Research (CIS) will publish an advance of the results of the ‘Flash survey on the electric blackout of April 28’, in which will show the opinions of citizens On this historic incident. A ‘Flash’ survey is a fast study, conducted with a small number of questions, in order to collect information in a day and a half or a couple of days on events of special impact.
In Portugal, 41% of citizens Consulted considers that the acting government of the conservative Luís Montenegro and the public entities “They didn’t deal well” With the crisis caused by the blackout, according to a survey published by the Consumer Support Portal Da Queixa.
This survey also reveals that Only 19% of the Portuguese approve the authorities’ response To the electrical failure, according to this survey answered by 2,829 people between April 29 and 30, the two days immediately after the blackout.
