The third vice president and minister for ecological transition, Sara Aagesenhe has described as “irresponsible and simplistic” to point to renewable energy as the cause of the blackout that left the peninsula without light for hours.
“Pointing to renewables seems irresponsible and simplistic. Spain will be green or not,” he said in an interview with El País, in which he acknowledges that It will still take “many days” to know the origin of the electrical failure. At the moment, he adds, No cause is ruled out, including cyber attack.
Aagesen also argues that it is “absurd” to relate the blackout to the closure calendar of the nuclear that the electricity companies agreed with the government. A line in which the Government has remained these days: last Friday, the Minister for Digital and Public Function Transformation, Óscar López, came to accuse the PP of becoming “a nuclear lobby.”
“You have to analyze thousands and thousands of data”
The Ecological Transition holder considers that France must become aware that “interconnections have to arrive yes or yes” to make the electricity grid safer in the Peninsula. “We are investigating with a lot of prudence and responsibility,” explains the vice president, “to have certainties and be able to transmit them with total transparency. And to seek measures so that it does not happen again,” he said.
According to Aagesen, what they know so far is that “there were some oscillations, a first and a second one, and that the system finally reached a zero with the cutting of interconnection with Europe. You have to analyze thousands and thousands of dataand as soon as we can have the cause. “
The third vice president and minister for the ecological transition indicates that The blackout was “something totally unusual” because in Spain something the same had never happened. “It is difficult to know the cause because in the five seconds in which these oscillations occur, In each millisecond there are many variables That now you have to analyze. In addition, you have to analyze the different operators, “he explained.
Sanchez will appear on Wednesday for the blackout
This Saturday the Brugon Analysis Committee said, at its second meeting after its creation on Wednesday, that “the data already received” about the incident and that “waiting for all of the required information” are being analyzed. ” In addition, a cybersecurity work group was created and another on the operation of the electrical system to determine the causes of the incident. From this Friday, Spain also has a follow -up group together with Portugal, which was also affected by the blackout, to prevent it from happening again.
Also on Saturday, the progress of the results of the Flash survey of the Center for Sociological Research (CIS) on the blackout was made public: 59.6% of the Spaniards believe that the information that the government gave during the blackout was “insufficient” and 38.4% fouled more explanations about the causes of the blackout.
Next Wednesday the president of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, will go to Congress to inform about the electric blackout The plan that will allow Spain this year to an expense in defense of 2 % of GDP. In his appearance before the plenary, at his own request and the PP in both cases, and of ERC and BNG in the blackout, Sánchez will account for the measures that the Executive will adopt to respond to the new security and defense needs of the European Union and its performance before the energy crisis lived on the last Monday of April.
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