Red Eléctrica has ruled outduring a press conference of its service director, Eduardo Prieto, that the great blackout produced yesterday and that left the Iberian Peninsula without electricity supply for several hours, It is due to a cyber attack.
Prieto has assured during his appearance that «With data analysis, we can rule out a cybersecurity incident in the Electric Red facilities. Prieto has also stressed that they have had the collaboration of the Incibe and the CNI, and that there has been no “No type of intrusion in the electricity control systems that the incident may have caused«.
The manager has also stressed that Red Electrica has «All protection measures in cybersecurity«, So there was a very low probability that this was the reason for the blackout, and that there was no evidence of a cyber attack. Even so, the company has made an in -depth audit and Prieto has assured that they are already a position to rule out a cybersecurity incident as the origin of the blackout.
On the other hand, about the beginning of the incident, Prieto has indicated that the energy supply «At 12:33 it was stable, and five seconds later the system suffered an extreme disturbance«, Adding that«The system was not able to survive that extreme disturbance and went to zero«. That is, energy production and supply ceased completely. A phenomenon that had never occurred in Spain so far.
Among the details offered as extension, he also stressed that «There were two separate disconnections a second and a half in the southwest region of Spain«, Which may be related to the causes of the blackout. But in order to know the exact location of these disconnections it is necessary to wait for all centers to facilitate the corresponding information, a process that can still take a few days.
Thus, he pointed out that when Red Eléctrica has all the information «We can evaluate the incident, but nothing leads us to think that there could be a human error«. For now they cannot specify when they will clarify what happened, although they will try to be «as soon as possible«.
Just after the blackout occurred, Prieto explained that «All corresponding protocols were activated»Facing the restoration of the service, highlighting that«The replacement strategy went through the location of healthy sources, at the borders with France and Morocco. In this way we re -energy the systems«. In addition to emphasizing that it was “a gradual process, given the complexity«, Stressed that«At 4 in the morning all all the systems had a network«.
Meanwhile, normality is recovering both in the electricity supply and in related services, such as connectivity through the Internet and mobile telephony. At 11:15, Red Electrica issued a statement ensuring that The operation of the peninsular electrical system is already normalized. They also confirm that the demand tip has already been exceeded at 8:35 with 28,677 MW, and that the night peak is expected at 21:10, with 31,200 MW.
