Behavior in Spain and Portugal brings many European Iberian peninsula on stalemate

Massive and unprecedented Strength behavior They hit large parts on Monday Spain as well as Portugal. Blackout stopped the railway and rail trains, cut telephone service and exclude traffic lights and ATMs for millions of people living in the entire European Iberian peninsula.

The Spanish distributor of Power Red Electric said that the return of the country could last up to 10 hours. As the night fell, only about 35% of the Spanish force was renewed, according to utility. Portuguese capital, Lisbon, remained without power, has returned to some 750,000 customers in the country, said the situation was expected to be expected that the situation is expected to normalize “soon.”

Portuguese Prime Minister Luis Montenegro expected the power to renew by the end of the day.

Power of interruption hits Spanish and Portugal capital

Unaccompasses also hit the Spanish capital, Madrid. Offices closed and traffic was noted because the traffic lights stopped working. It was not possible to refer to some mobile phone networks, although some applications worked. In Barcelona, ​​the inhabitants entered the trafficking in search of rather than a directional traffic on the nodes along the Grand.

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said the problem in the European network described as “strong oscillation,” was behind the interruption, but that the cause is still determined. The Spanish leader asked the public to refrain from speculation and did not say that no theory on the reason for rejecting rejection.

Ren, the Portuguese network operator, said a rare atmospheric phenomenon in Spain from extreme temperature variations behind massive breaks, according to Reuters. Portuguese National Center for Cyber ​​Security issued a statement that says that there was no sign because of Cybertattack.

Red Eléctric refused to guess the causes of obscuration. Eduardo Prieto, the head of the operations in the Red Electric, told reporters that he was unprecedented, calling the event “extremely and extraordinary”. Until the middle of the afternoon, the voltage was progressively renovated in the north, south and west of the peninsula, the company said.

Electricity is drawn from Morocco and France to return power to southern and northern Spain, Sanchez said, thanks to its governments. Spain has also increased production from hydroelectric power plants and a combined thermal power plant cycle.

Sánchez convened an outstanding meeting of the National Security Council in Spanish and visited the Red Eléctric to follow efforts to restore lattice operations. Montenegro said he talked several times with Sánchez. The Portuguese cabinet convened an emergency meeting in the premiere of the prime minister.

Countries have a combined population of about 60 million people. It was not immediately clear as affected. It is rarely to have such a widespread interruption over the Iberian peninsula.

Spain Canary Islands, Balearic Islands and Territory Ceuta and Melilla, located in the Mediterranean in Africa, were not affected by interruption.

The Portuguese government announced that there was an interruption of the stage out of the country’s problem, the official said the National News Agency Lus.

“It seems that it was a problem with a distribution network, apparently in Spain. Still determined,” said the Kabinet Minister Leitão Amaro.

The Portuguese distributor E-Rederes said that the break is “problems with the European power system”, according to the Portuguese newspaper Expresso. The company announced that it was forced to cut power in certain areas for network stabilization, according to Expresso.

Blackout is another serious European power failure in less than six weeks after fire 20. March Turn off heathrow airport In the UK and comes as authorities across Europe against the sabotage supported by Russia.

Spanish public broadcaster Rtve said that the main mistake in power struck a few land regions immediately after the local time, leaving its editorial office, the Spanish parliament in Madrid and underground stations in the dark.

Some people were captured in elevators or in garages, and 286 rescue operations were performed to release those captured within the elevators in the Madrid region, regional authorities said.

The chart on the Spanish electricity network that shows the demand for the country to indicate a steeply fall around 12:15 from 27,500 megawatts to almost 15,000 megavats.

Spanish airports worked on the backups of electrical systems, and some flights were late, towards Aeni, which leads 56 airports in Spain, including Madrid and Barcelona.

In Lisbon, the terminals and drums of tourists sat outside in the sun and shade, waiting for the news about their flights.

“We didn’t see the plane arrived or goes in 50 minutes, waiting here,” Dutch tourist Marc Brandsma said.

Training services in both ground floor lands to stop. The video broadcast in Spanish television showed that people evacuate metro stations in Madrid and empty stages with trains stopped in Barcelona. The Oscar Puenta’s Spanish Minister has published the Social Platform X that would not be possible to start trains later on Monday, even if the power returned.

The game in the Madrid open tennis tournament is suspended. There are three games in the course of when the power dropped.

The Spanish Traffic Department has requested citizens to avoid using their cars as much as possible due to the interruption of electricity, which affected traffic lights and signaling.

Barcelona flows the streets of the piles of peoples on sidewalks, milling in front of darkened shops and offices and exchange information about what happened.

“We’re happy. Some were captured in the subway. And there is a positive side: we talk more to each other,” Monste Cortés said. She said dinner would be a sliced ​​bread and a cold cut.

Immediate concerns were that telephone companies still had at least a little spotting coverage or where access to the internet can be found. Second concern was how to get home with metronistic closed and public buses. Some have used the lack of connectivity and transport to enjoy the sun on the terraces in restaurants.

In Terrace, an industrial city 30 miles from Barcelona, ​​selling sales generators were not in stock after people lined them buy them.

Briefly affected parts of France, according to Reuters. French RTE RTE said he was working on some parts of northern Spain.

In Portugal, a country of some 10.6 million people, an interruption of strikes in Lisbon and the surroundings, as well as north and southern parts of the country. Portuguese police put multiple direct traffic officers and deal with increased assistance requirements, including people trapped in elevators.

Hospitals and other emergencies in Spain and Spain and Portugal are transferred to the generators. Gas stations have stopped working.

Portuguese National Government for emergencies and civil protection states that electricity security systems are.

Several cars in Lisbon were evacuated, reports were announced. Also in Portugal, the courts were stopped and ATMs and electronic payment systems were affected.

AFP

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