Beatriz Corredor arrived at Red Electric create a team in the image and likeness of the socialist argumentary, … Something that his predecessor was intentionally ignored. The still president of the Spanish electric operator also arrived to calm the waters after the Poczo de Sevilla, which resigned after facing the then Minister of Ecological Transition, Teresa Ribera, and the National Commission of Markets and Competition (CNMVC) for the control of investments and energy planning.
Already in his resignation letter, Seville denounced that Red Eléctrica (company under the umbrella of the State, through the SEPI, which has 20% of the Spanish electrical system operator) had lost autonomy, that government intervention in technical decisions had become normal and that it had not been allowed to reinforce the system as it believed necessary. His departure, in January 2020, marked a turning point in the institution that even, Under the runner’s mandate, he lost the ‘Spain’ of his namewhich executed with the brand change in June 2022, from Ree to Redeia.
But not only that was the obsession of runner since his arrival in front of Red Electrica. Beatriz Corredor – Housing Exist during the time of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero and former socialist deputy – marked as an absolute priority, and Under Sanchista mandatefollow the progressive agenda marked by the president of the Government, above all that concerns the company’s business core: electricity.
Internal messages to the template
According to ABC Electric Red Workerssome of them area managers, since its arrival corridor dedicated himself to sending constant internal messages to the template (through communications by intranet or emails) extolling the veleities of the renewables, for which he has opted from its beginnings 100%, and, in addition, for everything that was related to the progressive agenda of the Sánchez government over LGTBI, all to green, all to the green, all to
For this reason, especially during its first year of mandate, that of the pandemic –2020–, reinforced that template with managers – especially, directives – ‘Dei’ (acronym in Spanish of English ‘Chief Diversity Officer’, strategic leaders responsible for promoting diversity, equity and inclusion), Without experience or knowledge of the sector, departing from the first line of business, say, to technicians of the company with long career and, these yes, with the necessary ‘Know How’.
The employees consulted that the president has influenced her appearances and internal messages on issues or family social or ecological activitiesand that did not convey so much interest in knowing well the electricity network or the country’s electrical system.
-For their own technicians – they say the sources – who complain not to be heard, close the nuclear power plants, as part of that socialist argument and aimed at rajataba by the previous Minister of Ecological Transition – if well now as European Commission Conversion, control and efficient conditioning of electrical energy by static means – has to fulfill some technical criteria that, to a large extent, does not yet comply ». In addition, the vast majority of these technicians, however rare, consider “the nuclear more ecological than solar or wind”, but have not even been consulted.
At the end of 2020, those same internal ‘progressive’ messages to the media were launched from Red Electric: «Spain is doing the duties marked by the National Integrated Energy and Climate Plan (PNIEC), which vertebra a process of energy transition that will be a tractor head of the economy in the coming years. In fact, it provides for the attraction of more than 200,000 million euros of investment in this period, of which a significant portion will be used for the integration of renewables into the electrical system ».
From its first months to the front of Red Eléctrica, corridor described the operator as one of the essential Spanish companies “In the impulse of a green exit to the economic crisis resulting from the pandemic of Coronavirus in Spain.” For the company, the focus of that new economic model should be the impulse of the energy transition, which was articulated around five vectors: the decarbonization of the economy, the integration of renewable energy, the impulse of energy efficiency, the protection of the environment and the commitment to a fair and inclusive transition. “We must all assume our individual, institutional and corporate responsibility,” said Beatriz Corridor in the press.
Today, all those efforts to adhere to the progressive agenda of the government – a new economic model, yes, that sank its roots in the European Commission Bet Known as the Green Pact – they have suffered a hard blow after the day of the blackout, last Monday, April 28. Corridor did not make an appearance before the media that day until 48 hours later, just an institutional note, without a signature, in which external cyber attacks were ruled out and the blackout attributed to a sharp decrease in energy. The sources of the sector spoke of the “disappearance” of 15 gigawatts in five seconds, which forced the Iberian network to disconnect to avoid major damage. But nothing more.
As ABC has learned, yesterday, he wanted to meet with his own, with the entire management team -who today, in turn, have moved to the rest of their teams -to convey a message of calm and «make it clear that it takes time to have a rigorous response. There are many millions of data in those critical seconds ». Internal messages that have transmitted and that are logical, timely and reassuring, according to the sources consulted.
Corredor told his employees that “the political debate and responsibilities have to be disagreed.” «We have maximum confidence in the operator’s work. The operator always has and has had a risk aversion mentality. The ‘operation procedures’ are very guarantee and mark a lot. There are things to evolve. But it is also possible that nothing has been done wrong. You cannot do any assertion. Out there is a lot of noise, but we must isolate ourselves from that «.
