The Spanish government has blamed private firms and the Spanish grid regulator for an hours-long blackout in April, which affected it and its neighbour, Portugal.
Two months after the blackout, the Spanish government said the country’s grid regulator, Red Electrica, which is partly state-owned, had miscalculated power capacity needs for the day. Private providers were blamed for failing to regulate the grid before the blackout.
“Generation firms which were supposed to control voltage and which, in addition, were paid to do just that did not absorb all the voltage they were supposed to when tension was high,” said the minister of ecological transition, Sara Aagesen.
She also said there was no evidence of a cyberattack.
Alberto Nunez Feijoo, leader of the biggest opposition party, the People’s Party, said that the government was “so intent on being the greenest in the world that you have led Spaniards into the dark.”
However, the government said its renewable energy drive was not responsible for the outage.
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