Spanish network operator errors big power stations in blame for blackout

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The Spanish network operator accused some large energy stations of not doing its work to help organize the country’s electricity system in moments before it was overwhelmed last month across the Iberian Peninsula.

“The Payric’s COMPANY Corporation said,” power Plants decreased in controlling the electricity system voltage.

However, heads SpainThe “largest manufacturers’ owners” linked to a non -investment in the network and insufficient efforts to increase the demand for electricity.

The public blame game is intensified for the power outage more than three weeks after leaving 60 million people without authority, the Spanish government investigators insisted that they need more time to create the root issue.

The disclosure opens on Thursday from Corredor, President of Rideia, a new interface after the lights initially fell on Spain’s high dependence on Wind and solar energy As a possible reason for blackout.

Corredor did not say that the large power plants were the root cause, but said that the performance of some gas, nuclear or photovoltaic facilities in southwestern Spain was “less than (levels) required by the current voltage control regulations.”

Their role is likely to be important because experts have identified the near release as an increase in the voltage on the network, as well as a decrease in the frequency in which the electric current alternates, which led to the interruption of multiple generation factories.

Corredor insisted that moments before failure on April 28, part of the Red Eléctrica system, including the network stations of the network, was working within the voltage ranges set by organizational standards.

“So we have to think about what was happening with the effort in the rest of the regime,” she said. “Because (eléctrica red) is the brain, the spine. But it is clear that this system has arms and legs and has a heart, and it is the plants that generate electricity.”

The height of the voltage on the network leads to the separation of power plants automatically for safety reasons to protect equipment from damage.

Kirdior said that the differences in the effort “had a lot of relationship” to the role of energy stations in organizing levels by “absorbing” what is known as the interactive power, which is part of the electricity that swings between the generators and the final consumers. It was otherwise that absorption levels shortly before the power outage were very low.

The three largest owners of power plants in Spain are Endesa, Iberdrola and Nature.

One of the energy sector officials has declined against the claims, saying, “The power plants have provided the best services that it could, despite the abnormal behavior of the transmission network,” which is run by Red Eléctrica.

The official said Red Eléctrica “could have been activated more power plants to control effort and absorbing interactive energy, on both the previous day and during the morning of April 28).”

Endesa, CEO of Endesa, said on Thursday that a decisive lesson in power cuts is that Spain had failed to update its network for an era of strong dependence on wind and solar energy – which was contributing about 70 percent of its electricity before blackout.

Speaking before Corredor in an event organized by The Newspace Explyón, Bogas noted that individual renewable facilities were – compared to traditional fossil fuel stations and nuclear energy – smaller, more differentiated and farther than large centers of consumption.

But he said: “I think we continued to operate the system as we did when we rely more on) large (traditional) power plants.”

One of the main problems is that the country has not done enough to enhance the demand for all the electricity it could produce.

“The problem is not the amount of renewable energy that we have. The problem is to make sure that we use this renewable energy so that the industry can be electrified, so that electric cars can be more prevalent, so that the heat pumps can be more prevalent.”