Spain identifies power failure 'ground zero' as search for Iberian blackout cause continues

Spain's investigation into nan blackout that affected nan Iberian Peninsula successful precocious April revealed first powerfulness procreation failures successful 3 Spanish provinces — Granada, Badajoz, and Seville, Minister for Ecological Transition Sara Aagesen told nan Spanish Congress of Deputies connected Wednesday.

The substation successful Granada was crushed zero, and nan powerfulness nonaccomplishment caused a nonaccomplishment of 2.2 gigawatts of electricity, causing a concatenation of grid disconnections. The origin of nan substations' failures remains chartless astatine this time.

During her reside astatine nan plenary session, Aagesen said that nan ongoing investigation has ruled retired respective hypotheses, including that nan monolithic outage that started connected 28 April was owed to coverage, backup, aliases web size.

The authorities is acting earnestly to get to nan bottommost of it, Aagesen reiterated. "The authorities is moving pinch rigour and not making hypotheses, because that is what nan Spanish group deserve. Rigour and truth," she explained.

The findings are nan first clear conclusions to beryllium made nationalist aft much than 2 weeks since nan blackout that saw Spain and Portugal grind to a halt.

Aagesen said this remains "an highly analyzable investigation" because "millions of bits of data" are being analysed.

At nan aforesaid time, nan power curate pointed retired that, according to nan information available, half an hr earlier nan blackout, "two oscillations successful nan Iberian strategy pinch nan remainder of nan European continent" were recorded.

This study coincides pinch preliminary reports from nan European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity (ENTSO-E), which pointed to "two periods of powerfulness and wave swings successful nan synchronous area of continental Europe."

Aagesen has assured that nan authorities will proceed "relentlessly" to "identify nan causes" of this "extremely complex" incident, which "does not travel pinch elemental explanations".