Spanish Minister rules out cyberattack as reason for April’s blackout
- Spain's ecological transition minister Sara Aagesen reported that a major blackout struck the Iberian Peninsula on April 28, 16 days ago.
- The blackout resulted from sudden generation losses in Granada, Badajoz, and Seville, but the exact cause remains unknown as investigations continue.
- Aagesen said cascading system oscillations and a 2.2 GW cumulative loss triggered load shedding while demand-shedding attempts by the grid operator REE failed to prevent the blackout.
- She indicated that there is nothing suggesting a cyberattack occurred and described its dismissal as very positive news amid the ongoing examination of millions of data points.
- Spain's government aims to identify the causes objectively to implement preventive measures while sustaining the country's renewable energy commitment.
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Spain identified failures in Granada, Badajoz and Seville seconds before the attack
Minister Sara Aagasen added that in addition to the three errors identified in the generation system in Spain, "there were two oscillations of the Iberian system with the rest of the European continent".
Aagesen advances that generation disconnections before the blackout began in Granada, Badajoz and Seville
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