The president of the Government of Spain, Pedro Sánchezwill go to Congress on Wednesday to inform about the electric blackout of April 28. The Executive continues collecting information from electricity In order to find out the origin of the fall of the supply, while the Popular Party (PP) demands that responsibilities be assumed “in the first person” starting with the president of the Government, continuing by the ministers and ending by the president of Electric Red, Beatriz Corredor.
After the appearance of Sánchez, the control session will be held to the Executive, where, again, the blackout will be the protagonist, along with other issues such as the plan for defense spending.
“Do you think Spain deserves the agony of its disgust?”, Will the PP leader ask, Alberto Núñez Feijóoto Sánchez, who will also answer a question by the new spokesman in the PNV Congress, Maribel Vaquero, on the agreements of the Mixed Transfers and Security Commissions and another of UPN on the management of the Executive in Navarra and Spain.
Broad in Spain: the government says that it will take “many days” to learn about the causes of the incident
The Spanish minister for the ecological transition warned this Sunday to spend “many days” before knowing the origin of the great blackout in the Iberian Peninsula that paralyzed the country last Monday.
“We are talking about many days”Sara Aagesen said in an interview published on Sunday in the newspaper El País. “All hypotheses are open,” he said, even that of “cyber attack.”
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Regarding the role that renewable energies could have played in the blackout, the minister admitted the possibility of an anomaly in photovoltaic facilities of the southwest of Spain, as the Spanish Operator of the Electric Red (Ree) had already mentioned.
“Today we do not know which generation facilities were the ones that stopped being in the system”, Aagesen said. “Talking about a photovoltaic lot can be precipitated, although on the map you can see the different generation technologies of each area. And there is a lot of photovoltaic solar in the southwest of Spain,” he said.
The minister also assured that “renewables are not insecure per se” and that it is “simplistic” to point them out as the origin of the incident.
After the great blackout, several experts point to the incident to the imbalance between the production and demand for electricity, more difficult to correct without adequate technologies in a network where wind and solar weigh more.
“Renewables are giving Spain the possibility to achieve very important energy independence in a geopolitically vulnerable world. Having your native energy is essential,” said the minister.
The improvement of interconnections with neighboring countries, such as France, could also contribute to the stability of the network, according to experts.
In this sense, the minister said that despite the fact that France has been seeing difficulty from the environmental point of view “of personal interconnections” we insist that this is an objective beyond two countries. “
Debate about the blackout in the European Parliament
The Popular Party promotes a debate in the full of Strasbourg on the blackout “in the absence of responses by the Government of Pedro Sánchez.” In a press release, the PP has lamented that a week later the Executive “still does not explain the causes and true consequences that our country has suffered.”
The spokeswoman of the PP in the European Parliament, Dolors Montserrat, has indicated that “a government that presumes the best electrical system in the world cannot be excused in its own ignorance about what happened on Monday so as not to give explanations. Recovered normality, It is time to compensate for damages and lost lives and appear before citizens, in Spain and in Europe. ”
The vice president of the PP regretted that “the entire European Union has been able to verify the incompetence of this government unable to manage the greatest blackout of the recent history that left us 12 hours without light and incommunicado.”
Losses in the bag for redeia from the blackout
Redeiathe parent company of Electrica, is suffering a Important Stock Exchange Since the electric collapse in the Peninsula occurred last Monday, which has taken it to lose more than 800 million euros of capitalization in just three sessions.
Specifically, its stock capitalization, which is the value of the sum of all its actions, It went from 10,432.4 million euros to 9,631.2 million in just three sessions, losing 800.8 million. This means that the State, which controls 20% of Redeia through the SEPI, has lost in those three days Something more than 160 million euros. Also, Amancio Ortega, who has 5% through Pontegadea, has left another 40 million.
Source: Ambito
