Spain Blames Planning Missteps and Technical Problems for . . . Presenting the government’s report on Tuesday, Sara Aagesen, Spain’s minister of ecological transition, said that the grid had failed to respond after a series of unusual voltage variations on
Poor planning’ by grid operator REE blamed for April . . . The unprecedented blackout across the Iberian peninsula was primarily caused by REE’s failure to manage a surge in voltage, the Spanish government has said On 28 April, a major incident saw millions of households and businesses across Spain, Portugal and southern France suffer the largest power cut in Europe’s recent history
April blackout in Spain and Portugal was due to grid failures . . . In the weeks following the blackout, citizens and experts were left wondering what triggered the event in a region not known for power cuts The outage ignited a fierce debate about whether Spain’s high levels of renewable power and not enough energy generated from nuclear or gas-fired power plants had something to do with the grid failing, which the government has repeatedly denied
Spain’s blackout probe faults both grid operator and utilities Spain has spread the blame for the catastrophic Iberian blackout between its grid operator and electricity companies, saying the April outage stemmed from a combination of “bad planning” and