A big Disconnectof which the reasons are still unknown, left on this Monday No power supply To SpainIN Portugal and some areas of the south from Francecausing problems in the work of public services, such as the railway and metro, as well as companies and private individuals.
The supply of electricity was interrupted on the peninsula from unknown reasons. According to the operator of the system, Spanish electricity (RE), when consumption was about 25 thousand 184 megavatts, suddenly collapsed up to 12 thousand 425 megavatts.
The operator indicates that he was “zero“In it Peninsula electric systemWhich usually indicates a generalized dimming. Subsequently, according to Rei, later, the peninsula of the electric system began to restore tension in the northern and southern regions.
Nevertheless, the overall restoration of the Spanish electric system can take from 6 to 10 hours, since the director of the Red Electrica, Eduardo Prieto service, admitted that this frequency is “absolutely exceptional”.
NACAIS ENERGY NETWORKS (REN), which is responsible for the supply of electricity and gas in Portugal, confirmed that on Monday there is a “mass reduction in electricity throughout the Iberian and part of the French territory” and that plans to restore services were activated.
The shutdown of the shutdown also reached some areas of the southern part of France, which have suffered a certain partial amount of electricity, but the service has already been restored, sources from the National Network Manager RTE reported EFE, which said that France could contribute to the network of the Iberian network, up to 950 megawatts (MW), until it has technical ability.
Calls to calm and research
At the moment, the details that caused the supply and power of electricity are unknown, this only indicated that this was due to a strong fluctuation in power flow.
The President of the Government, Pedro Sanchez, moved along with his third vice president and Minister of Environmental Transition of Sarah Ageseen, to the Electric Red Management Center to find out the evolution of the situation caused by the reduction, and called up the meeting of the Security Council.
In Portugal, the National Coordinating Center for Operations met, where all agencies to assist Portugal are integrated to study the necessary procedures to respond to disconnecting the shutdown in Portugal.
The Minister of National Defense of Portugal, Nuno Mel, called on citizens to be calm: “The call we must make is a call to calm, we know that this lack of energy has reached several countries, we do not know the reason,” Mel in the statements of the press, in the center of the country, said.
Circulation problems, but normality on flights
A Traffic lights which regulate car traffic left from Job In several regions of Spain, such as a mobile network and public transport, were also changed.
He Madrid Metro It was Disrupted From the absence of power supply and something like this happened in BarcelonaWhere metro And railway And thousands of passengers were on trains, some in the tunnels where they were supposed to be evacuated.
IN LisbonStations metro Khan too closed Its doors and cult trams of the capital were stopped on the street; In addition, there was apparently continuous movement of emergency services along the streets, police and ambulances.
This little chaos was not so lived at the airports of the peninsula. According to Aena Anaropre, the Barcelona Airport worked with the “all normal”, and, according to the Aena sources, the Spanish airport manager, thanks to the alternative supply system, and, according to the flight monitoring of the flight, the airport Madrid was inactive in the departure and arrival for at least half an hour, but then the aircraft movement around The airfield was again.
The Portuguese port department, on the other hand, activated emergency generators at the airports of Porto and Faro, allowing basic operations, as well as in Lisbon, which works with great restrictions.
Failures in elevators and enterprises in stores
The shutdown forced eviction From many buildings Headquarters -apartment Company from SpainBut also some official institutions, as well as the Prado Museum, of which hundreds of tourists had to leave that this morning came to find out about the main Pinacoteca in Spain.
The main Spanish banks continue to work with some normality, although some organizations have expanded the closure of branches and payments for cards, they began to register the first problems if Datáphone does not have enough batteries or access to the telephone network.
And also reported about the problems In a trap of people V LiftsField
After the chaos created by Blackout, the National Emergency Institute (INEM) of Portugal called on all citizens to use 112 “only in case of emergency to avoid overloading the system.”
This agency “activated its plan in case of unforeseen circumstances and has its own telephone and computer systems that work through generators that have been automatically activated,” the agency said in the agency specified by the Portuguese agency.
In Lisbon, the continuous movement of emergency services along the streets can be seen by police and ambulance vehicles. In hospitals, such as Santa -Maria -de -Lissabon, generators are also active to guarantee the functioning of operating rooms and intensive care units.
There are also other incidents, such as tourists and neighbors who have ended with access to apartments whose doors open with electronic chips, and the famous fresh seafood restaurants showed their concern, because the product is spoiled from the lack of cooling.
With information EFE