Still not ‘rare atmospheric phenomenon?’ Spanish Prime Minister: ‘We haven’t seen something like this yet!’

The Spanish Minister of Internal Affairs has declared an extraordinary situation and deployed 30,000 police officers to protect public order and peace by country. The governments of the two countries have held an emergency session for the disappearance of electricity whose scale are not remembered for this Europe. The cause is still unknown, and Portugal suggested that the problem arose in Spain, which in turn points to the interconnection with France.

Portuguese Prime Minister Luis Montenegro said there was no indication that a cyber attack caused an incident that began at 10.30.

Still, rumors of sabotage and Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez appeared that he had talked to NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte.

Sanchez said that the Earth was left without 15gw currents in a period of only five seconds, or 60 percent of national consumption. « Technicians try to determine what caused such a sudden fall, Sanchez said. » Something like this never happened. « 

Joao Conceicao, a member of the Portuguese Electric Portuguese Board, stated that he did not rule out the possibility of « huge oscillation in the electric voltage, first in the Spanish system, which then poured into the Portuguese system. »

« It can be a thousand and one reason, it’s still too early to say what is the cause, » he said.

The Spanish electricity company Reea believes that the problem arose in interconnection with France. « European systems cannot cope with the loss of electricity of such a proportion that caused the interruption of the connection between Spain and the French network and consequently caused collapse of Spanish electroster, » said Eduardo Prieto director.

Previously, without electricity, other parts of France were briefly. Rte, a French operator, announced that after the incident he sent electricity to the northern parts of the northern Spain.

The electricity returned to Basque and the Barcelona area early in the afternoon, and 61 percent of the network was normalized to the Madrid parts in the evening, the national operator announced.