A The national power outage affected Spain – like Portugal and France's smaller portions of portions – on the afternoon of the day, influencing important services and throwing chaos throughout the Pyrenee Peninsula.
Spanish and Portuguese officials and ministers are currently investigating the cause of the input.
“We have activated the planned procedures to restore the power supply; at this stage, the goal is to provide generating units to energy so that they can start and distribute the grid and other units,” said Red Eléctrica in Spanish in A press release Monday.
In the meantime, however, residents experience traffic delays because of the functioning of the traffic lights, closing grocery stores nearby and other disorders.
Spanish officials have asked residents to stay away from the roads and apply for emergency services only in serious cases. Similarly, the Portuguese police asked the locals to travel only if necessary, warning that the street and traffic lights may collapse.
“Nothing like this has ever happened before,” said Red Elétrica ElkTo. Eduardo Pietra, Director of Operations at Electricity Network, added that there is no information on the cause of the case and that the company could not “speculate on its origin”.
Red Eléctrica shared that at around 12.30 pm local time. The power began to be restored at about 1:00 pm soon after that. However, the restoration process has been gradual, with more than a fifth of the peninsula returning to their electricity. The company estimates that the electricity, which is now available in some of the Catalan regions, Aragon, Baskis, Galicia, Asturia, Navarra, Castilia and León, Extremadura and Andalusia, Red Elétrica, is now available in Spain.
Although hospitals continue their activities thanks to generators, other sectors affect. Transport has temporarily pause between airports and train stations. A Post xThe Spanish train company Renfe said that all trains are detained and have no departure, referring to the fact that the national power grid was cut. The Portuguese airline Tap Air asked its customers not to go to the airport as the flights remain suspended. Air Europa asked patrons to remain patient due to expected delays. “Flexible date changes are being made to assist all passengers,” said the airline post xTo. Spanish flagship Iberia said The fact that their systems were fully operational despite the downtime, but gave passengers the opportunity to rework their travels, taking into account many airports.
Renfe did not respond to the commentary request of time.
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