Tomorrow, Monday, May 5, will be fulfilled A week since Spain lived an unusual episode: the country plunged into a large almost total electric blackout which flooded the entire Iberian Peninsula, and part of the south of France, in the dark and the Telecommunications cessation.
In Spain, the electric blackout was resolved in a generalized way after 20 hours Since at 12:33 pm on April 28 the operator ELECTRICAL RED STOP PERFORMING ELECTRICITY to the country after losing “suddenly”, in five seconds, 15 Gigawatts (GW) of the Electricitythat is, the equivalent of 60% of the energy that was being consumed at that time.
Since then, Many have been the theories and hypothesis about what was the reason why this happened, Theories from a possible cyber attack to the Spanish electricity grid to a possible failure by converging the energies from fossils with renewables.
However, there have been many messages that in recent days have flooded social networks stating that, After what happened, and after Portugal asked the European Union for an independent audit to know the causes of the blackoutthe neighboring country has stopped importing electricity from Spain.
Have you left Portugal from importing electricity from Spain after the blackout?
Despite all information, even more appropriate to use the term misinformationdisseminated through social networks on which Portugal has stopped importing electricity from Spain, The truth is that it is not so.
As detailed by the eelectric network page, Spain currently exports to other countries 64.8% of the electricity it produceswhile It matters only 35.2% of the energy consumed in our borders.
In this sense, Spain exports, today, 85.3% of its energy to Portugalwhile from the Portuguese country imports 14.7%, according to Data offered by the Operator Red Electrica. For its part, Spain continues to export 37.9% energy to Francewhere it imports 62.1%; to Andorra 100%, without any import in return; and 89.3% to Moroccowhere our country imports a 10.7% electricity.
Aagesen states that pointing to renewables in the blackout is “irresponsible and simplistic”
The third vice president and minister for ecological transition, Sara Aagesensaid Sunday that Pointing to renewable energies as a reason for the blackout last Monday is “irresponsible and simplistic”and has insisted that All hypotheses remain open.
In several interviews to different media, the minister has influenced that “You have to analyze thousands and thousands of data” until reaching the cause of the blackout And that, for the moment, it is only known that there were some oscillations, a first and second, part of them in the Spanish southwest, and that the system finally reached a zero with the cut of interconnection with Europe.
“Pointing to renewables as a reason for the zero incident in Spain seems irresponsible and simplistic”the minister said, as long as he has not ventured any temporary term until he knows the causes of the incident for the “unusual” of what happened and He has limited himself to aiming that it is a matter of “many days”.
However, he has asserted that “What can be ruled out is that the cause was that a large number of renewables entered in the system”since, according to the vice president, there have been many other days with more solar generation in Spain and with less demand, and the system has worked perfectly.
