Electricity back in Spain – DN.se

The electricity now works in 90 percent of Spain after Monday’s interruption, the country’s electricity grid operator announces early on Tuesday morning, according to TT.

Also in Portugal, most have regained the power after the interruption. According to the state operator Ren, 85 of the country’s 89 transformer stations are now in operation.

Yesterday at lunch suddenly disappeared in the mobile network, shopping center, in traffic lights and at airports. In both Spain and Portugal, most things were eliminated in the power failure.

The Madrig airport was in total darkness. The trains stood still. The subway was evacuated. Shutdown traffic lights made there chaos in traffic. People began to bunk gasoline and food.

The work of getting Back power has dragged on over time. Ten hours after the interruption, half of the Spanish households were still and two -thirds of the Portuguese without power.

The interruption is the largest in Spain’s history. Still, no one really knows what it is. Rumors flourish and there is no reliable information.

Both Spanish and Portuguese authorities announced yesterday that they do not believe that this is any type of attack, such as cyber attack.

Yesterday the analyzes were about extreme « temperature variations » in the electricity grid.

According to Portugal electricity grid operator ReB, this led to some type of « synchronization error » in the systems. It was described as being an unusual « atmospheric phenomenon ».

This led to that Spain’s Interior Ministry announced national emergency permits. At the same time, the government promised that 30,000 police officers would be placed to help during the interruption.

Spain’s nuclear safety council went up in the state of preparedness to protect the country’s five large nuclear power plants.

At 23 o’clock, about half of the electricity supply was restored. Now in the morning the electricity works in almost all of Spain and Portugal.