Spanish citizens must be patient in the case of a massive power outage that hit Spain last week. Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez told the Spanish parliament on Wednesday, according to the AFP news agency.
Pressure is growing on the government, which has not yet been able to determine what caused the outage on April 28. The power outage paralyzed everything from traffic to telephone coverage. Since then, authorities have been collecting and analyzing data from, among others, electricity companies.
- The process takes time because we have to carefully examine around 756 million units of data, says Sánchez.
He promises parliament "to get to the bottom of the matter".
- Citizens want to know what happened. But what we do not want is to close the debate too early. We will not draw hasty conclusions, says the prime minister.
Earlier in the process, according to AFP, the authorities have indicated that two incidents occurred five seconds apart. It is unclear what kind of incident it is. But it should have triggered a loss of electricity production of around 60 percent of Spain's electricity consumption at the time.
Pedro Sánchez said on Wednesday that preliminary technical investigations indicate that there were three incidents. The last one should have triggered the outage. The Spanish electricity grid operator Red Eléctrica said last week that the preliminary assessment was that it was not a cyberattack that caused the outage.
The right-wing Spanish party Vox has attacked Spain's left-wing government. Vox links the sudden power outage to a planned phasing out of Spain's nuclear power plants. But Sánchez has denied that the outage is due to a lack of nuclear power. He repeated that message on Wednesday.
The power outage, which also hit Portugal, is the most extensive ever recorded on the Iberian Peninsula.
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