Massive Electricity Loss in Europe: In Spain, there are both trains and metro
Portugal is also affected by a power outage.
Madrid. Whole mainland Spain On Monday around 12.30 h, the power outage was hit, the metro in Madrid or Barcelona stopped and traffic on the railway throughout the country was stopped, and problems are also reported by the Madrid airport or Lisbon. The Spanish media informs about it.
The cause of the failure is not known and it is not yet clear how many people have touched. The power outages were also recorded in Portugalwhose government did not rule out a cyber attack, and in some parts of French adjacent to Spain. According to El País, the failure of the Spanish islands – Canary or Balearic – did not affect the failure.
« Everything suggests that the outage of such a scope was caused only by cyber attacks, » said Juan Manuel Moreno, Prime Minister of the Andalusian regional government, appealed to information from the regional center of cyber security.
He stressed, however, that he did not receive such information from the central government in Madrid, but that he reached this conclusion « exclusively on the basis of our own data ».
According to the spokesperson, the European Union is closely monitoring the situation.
Crisis staff
Due to the emergency situation, the Spanish government convened a crisis crew to the headquarters of the Red Eléctrica energy company, except for Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez arrived at ministers of transport or finance.
Red Eléctrica has previously announced that around 12.30 am energy consumption in Spain has been halved and activated the emergency plan. Around half past two, she stated that the supply of electricity was slowly renewing from the north and south of the country.
Eduardo Prieto, director of Red Eléctrica, shortly before three afternoon, said it could take six to ten hours to complete the operation. He did not want to speculate about the cause of the failure.
Transport problems
The outage was also largely influenced by transport. For example, he suspended the running of the busiest airport in Spain – Barajas in Madrid.
There are also no trains throughout the country, the Spanish national carrier Renfe reported. For malfunctioning traffic lights, traffic jams are formed, the metro evacuated.
London Maddie Sephton was just in the Madrid subway when electricity dropped. « We got into the wagon and everything was fine. But then everything darkened, » She told Skynews.
On the train stuck for twenty minutes until the employee manually opened the door. The British was on the way to the airport at that time. She had to climb the stairs of 15 floors from the station with the luggage.
« No lifts do not work, which makes it difficult for older people with limited mobility, » she added. According to her, « everyone is just standing and waiting » above the earth.
According to the Spanish daily El País, they also closed some shops because it went out light or did not let inside other customers. However, some have their own generators, so the outage did not limit them.
Hospitals did not stop working thanks to generators, but medical centers had problems because computers were turned off with patients’ data.
Problems in metropolises
The outage was stopped by the metro in Madrid and Barcelona. Also, ADIF and RenFa rail companies have announced that trains were stopped. Hundreds of people are also stuck on high -speed trains that stand on the lines. One passenger described the daily El País that the train stopped from Madrid in the cereal field.
People have also stuck, for example, in the yields in houses and companies. Some banks who did not work for Internet banking or mobile services did not have problems. Long advice was therefore formed at ATMs.
The power outage has been briefly stopped by some factories, such as Ford in Almussafes Valencian and Iveco’s factories in Madrid and Valladolide, wrote El País.
Mayor of Madrid José Luis Martínez-Almeida called on residents not to travel if they do not have to. « I ask all the people of Madrid to limit their movement to an absolute minimum, and if possible, to stay, where they are. We want all the roads to stay free, » he said in a video posted on social networks.
At the same time, he asked the citizens that the rescue services only wander in if it is « really urgent ».
