According to the media, power failure in Spain demanded three dead – diepresse.com
The search for the cause has been officially unsuccessful. So far there has been no evidence of a cyber attack, it says from REE. We are talking about an instability of the networks.
Due to the massive power failure of Monday on the Iberian Peninsula, at least three people have been killed. In the small town of Tabadadela in northwestern Spain, three members of a family died through carbon monoxide poisoning, as reported to the police and the news agency Europa Press, citing the police.
The victims are a couple aged 81 and 77 and their 56-year-old son. The oldest member of the budget needed a ventilation device. When the electricity failed, a petrol -powered emergency generator was thrown, the exhaust gases of which had apparently been distributed in the house unnoticed.
Exact cause continued to be unknown
The power supply in Spain and in the Portugal also affected has now been restored. The exact cause of the collapse of the power grid was initially unknown.
The day after the historical power failure, life in both countries was largely normal on Tuesday. The energy supply is restored almost everywhere. But the blackout, which paralyzed the Iberian Peninsula for almost a whole day, cut millions of the outside world and caused chaos, also leaves uncertainty.
« Now we all breathe up again, but the big question is: Can this happen again? And what if something like this lasts longer in the future? » It said in a morning valley round of the state Spanish TV station Rtve. A doctor from Madrid spoke in the radio station Cadena ser from a scary journey « to the Stone Age ».
On Tuesday – around 24 hours after the blackout – almost all people in Spain and Portugal had electricity again. The Internet, the phones and the traffic lights worked largely again after the total failure. Subs and trains drove again almost everywhere, but in Catalonia there were still problems with local trains that are used every day by tens of thousands to travel to work and school.
Energy supply restored
The Spanish network operator Red Eléctrica announced that the entire energy supply on the mainland affected by the failure had now been restored. In Portugal, all 6.5 million households have electricity again, the government said in Lisbon. The water supply works nationwide, and the entire traffic system is largely into operation after the power failure.
After the unprecedented power failure, which paralyzed large parts of the Iberian Peninsula on Monday around 12.30 p.m. on Monday, there is still no obstacle to the exact causes. To reassure many Castle Red Eléctrica, however, after joint investigations with the cyber security institute Incibe and the intelligence service CNI, the possibility of a cyber attack. The National State Court in Madrid nevertheless initiated the investigations.
The Spanish government spoke of a historical event. Millions of people were cut off from the outside world for hours – without electricity, without a network, without connections. « We have never experienced anything like this, » said Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez In a TV address. He praised the citizens for exemplary behavior. Although it was a stick dark in many places, there was no significant incidents. For example, the feared raids and looting did not occur, RTVE and other media reported in a first record.
Crisis sessions in Madrid and Lisbon
What exactly triggered the collapse is still the subject of investigations. Red Eléctrica blamed the abrupt interruption of the power connection with France for the collapse. However, why this decoupling was decoupled remained open on Tuesday. The governments in Madrid and Lisbon invited crisis meetings the day after. In Spain the meeting of King Felipe VI. guided.
Then Sánchez said: « That must never happen again! » The head of government announced that he would be accountable for private suppliers and initiate an improvement in the supply system.
« It was like in the sauna »
On Monday, public life in Spain and Portugal almost came to a standstill until night: people stuck in elevators, subway and trains – like the young filmmaker Polo Menarquez, who had to endure around 500 passengers in the standing high -speed train on the way from Madrid to Barcelona before the fire brigade led all passengers outdoors. « I was amazed at how calm everyone stayed. In the end, the stuffy air and the heat were unbearable. It was like in the sauna, » he told RTVE.
