They discard cyber attack as the cause of the blackout in Spain and Iberian Peninsula; This said network manager

Red Eléctrica, the company in charge of the energy supply in Spain, discarded on Tuesday that a cyber attack Be behind massive blackout that for hours suffered, on Monday, April 28, several countries of the Iberian Peninsula, which include Spain, Portugal and France as the most affected.

“We can rule out a cybersecurity incident,” Eduardo Prieto, director of the company, said in a press conference, who added that on the morning of Tuesday, April 29 that “we have been able to conclude that effectively There has not been any intrusion in electricity grid control systems that could have caused the incident. “

His statements are given 24 hours after the start of the cutting of the supply in the European Nation, where the light went around 12:30 pm (5:30 am Colombia) after a massive collapse of the system operator system, whose networks were around the 25,184 megawatts and, in a matter of seconds, fell to 12,425 megawatts.

The facts left without electricity to households, transport infrastructures and work centers in the country, and as confirmed, the situation was replicated in Portugal and France.

The causes of the blackout in Spain and part of Europe

Prieto said that after analyzing the ELECTRIC BLASHor that began on Monday in the Iberian Peninsula and, according to conclusions still preliminary, it was detected that everything points to Two previous independent generation losses to the supply cut as the main cause that caused a massive fall of its servers.

In this regard, he confirmed that It was not a cybersecurity incident in its facilities. The director of Services to the Electric Red Operation then detailed at the press conference, in which multiple media and international news agencies were, which the electric manager identified “an element compatible with a loss of generation” in the southwest peninsular region, “which was satisfactorily surpassed.”

From the company it was explained that only 1.5 seconds later there was “another element compatible with generation loss of the conditions of the electrical system “, which led to another 3.5 seconds later in” conditions compatible with the oscillations detected “at the time of the blackout.

As he said, “it is very possible that the affected generation can be solar”, although it has reiterated that the conclusions are preliminary and has asked that speculation about the origin of this unpublished blackout in the history of Spain be avoided.

The president of the government, Pedro Sánchez, also spoke on Tuesday and explained that the country is, “with all the caution” to “overcome the worst of the crisis and walk with a firm step towards the recovery of full normality.”

This was reported in an appearance at the Moncloa Palace after presiding over a new meeting of the National Security Council, where he said that throughout the night the 99.5% of the supply.

“The system has reacted with agility, public and private actors have acted effectively and coordination between public administrations has been believed that excellent and loyal,” he said before guaranteeing that the guard is not going to lower and underline that emergency protocols remain activated.

Sanchez also announced that the government will create a commission for the investigation of circumstances From the blackout: “The Government of Spain will reach the bottom in this matter and the reforms will be made and the necessary measures will be taken so that this does not happen again.”

For his part, the manager of the Portuguese Electric Retry Ren aimed new data on one of the hypotheses that was around the case, and that it was retaken by international means, mentioned that the fall of the services occurred due to “a rare atmospheric phenomenon.”

The company spokesman told the AFP that from the entity the dissemination of such information is denied and shared that it was also ruled out that among the causes there is the possibility of a cyber attack.

“In Portugal we do not have any information linked to a cyber attack or hostile aggression at this time. That is the preliminary evaluation of the different services,” said the Executive spokesman, Antonio Leitao Amaro, who specified in an interview with the CNN Portugal Canal that what happened would be the result of a “transport network problem” of electric power occurred in Spain.

How does Spain dawn after the massive electric blackout?

During the morning of Tuesday the cities are recovering normality. Several telephone and internet companies of Spain, who had affirmed an impact on their systems after the blackout, He said he recovered more than 90% of services 22 hours later.

In this way they detailed it in Telephone, vodaphone, masoantage and digi. The website Dowdetectorwhich records the incidents reported by users, this day continues showing a rebound of these, after the eve already taught a significant increase after the electric blackout.

However, some government entities indicated that some effects are still reported. Renfe, the main comparison of passenger and merchandise rail transport in Spain, for example, explained that AV trains with departure from Barcelona Sants and bound for Andalusia, towards the Mediterranean and long distance corridor by the northern peninsular They are still suspended at this time.

The novelty includes the high -speed trains of the Catalan capital which have destinations to southern Spain; to cities like València, Alicante or Murcia; and the long distance trains that circulate through the peninsular north.

*With EFE and AFP information

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