Mass blackout in Spain and Portugal: thousands of users without light
MADRID.- Spain suffers a Historical Mass electric blackout which left the transport infrastructure and communications of millions of people from 12.30 noon local time. The Government He still did not give official explanations about the reasons for generalized cutting Not an estimate of when the electric service would be restored again. Given this uncertainty, the Madrid have lived this noon some chaotic scenes, especially in the Madrid Metro And in the trains of the Renfe network, which stopped working and, in many cases, they were halfway to their destinations. The same happened in hundreds of buildings elevators. The traffic lights of many cities do not work, which also complicates traffic. Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas airport also lost electrical voltage.The airport of The Pratin Barcelona, it is also found without electricity supply, which is causing important delays in air operations. The lack of energy affects both the flights that start from the Catalan city and those that arrive and leave Madrid, aggravating the impact of the blackout on the main transport nodes of the country. Sirens are heard in the background in the streets of the center of the Spanish capital. Some schools even decided to withdraw the children from the classrooms in the absence of responses from the authorities. There is no one to walk down the street without looking at their cell phone to find an answer to the mass blackout. Meanwhile, the basic hospitals service is maintained with structures. The electricity supply cut that affects Spain on Monday has left the Madrid subway without service. Given the rumors that circulate on social networks, the National Cybersecurity Institute (INCIBE) reported that also Analyzes the possibility of a cyber attack against Spanish infrastructure.A las 13.30, la Red Eléctrica pública informó que comenzaba a recuperarse la “tensión eléctrica” en algunas zonas del norte y el sur de España, aunque sin precisar en cuánto tiempo se restablecería completamente el servicio.El Gobierno formó A crisis committee headed by the president Pedro Sáncheztogether with Vice President María Jesús Montero, the Minister of Transportation, Óscar Puente, and the Minister of Ecological Transition, Sara Aagesen. The team is gathered at the Electricity Retail offices. Portugala country of about 10.6 million inhabitants, the power cut affected the capital, Lisbon, already surrounding areas, as well as regions of the north and south of the country. The distributor e-ardes attributed the blackout to “A problem in the European electrical system”according to the Portuguese newspaper Expresso. The company explained that it was forced to interrupt the supply in specific areas to stabilize the electricity grid. According to the same medium, E-Redes also pointed out that Some parts of France were affected by the faultIn several areas, it was not possible to make calls through mobile phones, although some applications continued to work. In addition, unconfirmed reports indicated that Lisbon subway stopped operating and that numerous traffic lights in the city center were out of service, further complicating the situation. The criteria of
