Company says renewable energies were not cause of blackout in Spain

Spanish minister to ecological transition, Sara Aagesen, warned over the weekend that she will take “many days” until the origin of the great blackout in the Iberian Peninsula is known, which paralyzed Spain and also Portugal.

The French manager published on Monday a document in the format of questions and answers on his website, some of them to deny various false information that circulated on social networks about fires or atmospheric conditions that could have caused the power cut.

Since the blackout, some Spanish political parties have accounted for renewable energies to be responsible for the imbalance between production and the demand for electricity, as the network manager does not control sunstroke or wind.

However, the operators pointed out that, in other cuts, the problems arose in the transmission network, not in the production centers.

The French manager estimated that the results of investigations carried out on a European scale “will not be known in the coming days.”

The French entity stressed that European legislation establishes that the investigation and analysis of the incident should be carried out by the European network of electricity transport network managers, and.