Beatriz Corredor, President of Red Electrica: “It is not correct to relate the incident to renewables” | Economy | EUROtoday

Almost two days after Spain was left with out gentle for a number of hours, the president of Red Electrica, Beatriz Corredor, has defended the nationwide system and the professionalism and pace of her firm when reacting to an occasion that was not attainable to foretell. “We have the best system in Europe,” he repeated a number of occasions throughout an interview with the SER chain by which he has additionally rejected that he considers resigning. In his first public intervention from the blackout, he has been equally overwhelming to disrupt the speculation of the attainable impact of photovoltaic power on the occasion: “Relate Monday’s incident with renewables is not correct.”

“If I had the awareness that something more could have been done or that something was done wrong, it would do it,” he answered when he has been raised by leaving his place. Moreover, he has claimed how his firm reacted to the blackout: “He responded well, at the height of what is expected” and has not wished to search for a priori or rule out any risk in any respect.

On the opposite: Corridor defined that Red Electrica has launched a radical investigation to gather thousands and thousands of knowledge and “know millisecond to millisecond” what occurred. In this regard, he added that the community operates with a nationwide management middle, however that there are one other 35 territorial facilities which are being analyzed to know precisely the place and the way the issue that resulted in peninsular electrical disconnection occurred.

Just a couple of hours after these phrases, the third vice chairman and Minister of Ecological Transition, Sara Aagesen, has backed Corridor: “The work of the president and her entire team has been extraordinary and that is why we can have the restoration of the supply,” he mentioned after a number of journalists requested, within the press convention after the Council of Ministers, if he helps his administration and if he considers that he should resign.

Regarding the warning admitted in its newest annual report despatched to the National Securities Market Commission (CNMV, the Spanish Bags Supervisor) final February, Beatriz Corredor has indicated that this admission that there may very well be a nationwide blackout is a regulatory situation, that the board of administrators of a quoted firm (that’s, not a technical crew) should handle and make it formally recorded in compliance with the worldwide calls for of sustainability info. “A company has to value all the risks and all are all,” he mentioned.

But from there to assume that one thing like this might occur is plenty of distance and, in no case, it may very well be foreseen from the technological discipline. For all this, he has influenced the preparation and power of the system regardless of what occurred. “Today it would not happen again because we have learned,” mentioned the previous socialist minister. Of the little that’s nearly out of doubt is the choice of a cyber assault, though it has burdened that in the mean time they’re working with “preliminary reports” and there’s nonetheless the likelihood that an assault “of such sophistication” that might have gone unnoticed within the preliminary evaluation. In addition, it has thought of that the unbiased investigation introduced by the Government, below the umbrella of the Ministry of Ecological Transition, is “the reasonable.”

The head of the Spanish electrical system wished to reassure residents and has reiterated that occasions akin to Monday can’t occur once more, though it acknowledges that “zero risk does not exist.” He recalled that in latest occasions there have been “extraordinary events” within the worldwide and nationwide sphere and that conditions linked to local weather change, as occurred with the Dana within the Valencian Community, “show that everything can happen.”

In all of them, the Spanish system responded, has asserted, and, not like what occurred in different nations which have suffered blackouts, the Peninsula was capable of get better in hours, not in days. “At four in the morning, 100% substations were underway, so that downstreams the distributors arrived at the last level.” This response can solely be outlined as “a feat”, has claimed, because of the truth that Red Electrica has “the best brains” within the sector.

In one other interview in TVE, shortly after, it has talked about as a attainable enchancment in order that the “reinforcement” of electrical interconnection with France doesn’t occur once more, because the peninsula is an power island. “We have less interconnection with the continent [Europa]”, Recalled,” therefore, reinforcing the interconnection is something that has been demanding from the EU, from the governments of Spain and from Red Electrica for years. “He defined that” we are on the way to reinforce it with an interconnection that already underway and that will be in force in 2028 “.