Spain-Portugal Power Outage Investigation

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What Caused the European Power Outage?

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The causes of the power outage that left millions in Spain and Portugal without electricity on Monday have yet to be fully determined.

Red Eléctrica , the public company in charge of operating Spain ’s transmission infrastructure, has preliminarily ruled out a cyberattack, human error, or unusual weather or atmospheric conditions as a cause of the outage.

The company points out that the incident could have originated from two “disconnections of generation” possibly linked to the inherent volatility of renewable sources.

The probability of a similar event occurring again in the short or medium term is low.

Experts agree that it is urgent to implement measures to strengthen the resilience of the system.

The Spanish government and the European Commission have said that they are launching investigations into what caused the grid to fail.

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