Electricity has been partially restored in Portugal / Spain will try to restore electricity until Tuesday

The electricity was restored for 2.5 million customers in Portugal after the current, officials of the National Energy network (REN), quoted by CNN said. Spain will try to restore electricity to national level until Tuesday.

Almost 50% of Spain's electricity supply was restored after massive, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said on Monday night.

Although the cause of the power plant is not yet known, the network operator has established that it has occurred when 15 energy gigawatts were suddenly lost in just five seconds, according to Sánchez. “It's something that hasn't happened before,” he said. “To get an idea, 15 Gigawati are equivalent to about 60% of the country's request at that time.”

Sanchez added that officials still cannot say with certainty when things will return to normal.

The president gives assurances that 50% of the energy has already been recovered. Tuesday, schools will be open, but without classes.

Later last night, in his second extraordinary appearance without questions on the same day, which had not happened in the pandemic, Pedro Sánchez expressed the enormous surprise of the Government to the figures of the largest current in the history of Spain: “A power failure of it has never occurred. The specialists have not yet been able to determine the causes, but they will do it.

From here, the president announced an important announcement for Tuesday: schools will reopen, but without courses, so that parents who need to go to work and leave their children at school, but teachers will not be obliged to participate.

Sánchez recommended not to go to work if employers allow this and not impose travel unless they are essential, because railway traffic has not yet recovered. In fact, he acknowledged that 35,000 people stuck in trains throughout Spain had to be saved, and some were still blocked in the most inaccessible areas.

Sánchez focused on providing data to prove that the emergency situation is about to be resolved, but despite the hours that have passed, he could not provide soothing explanations regarding the causes. “There is no impact on civil protection.

Spain is a safe country, citizens can be quiet. Communications have to suffer due to lack of electricity at antenna. Port traffic continues normally, and in the air, out of the 6,000 flights scheduled for today, only 344 have been canceled. There are no incidents on the roads, apart from traffic jams. The stock markets have closed well, which demonstrates confidence in the economic situation. All state resources are mobilized from the first minute. We work so that the electric current is restored throughout the country until tomorrow, ”concluded the president, quoted by him Pais.

Various government sources recognize in private that what has happened is unprecedented, difficult to explain and very strange. Experts from various ministries and public agencies, the National Institute of Statistics (CNI) and the international contacts of the Executive have studied possible causes all day, but there is no definitive conclusion, and the Government has opted for maximum caution until a clear explanation. Sánchez even acknowledged that he is in contact with NATO to analyze the situation.

In the absence of an official explanation, all kinds of conspiracy theories have spread on social networks, this time much more active due to loss of mobile telephony for millions of people, some of which have resorted to radios with batteries. Sánchez put great emphasis on the urge to follow only the official information, from which, at that time, no clear conclusion could be drawn. “Let us ignore the information of dubious origin; these crises are conducive to the spread of false news,” he insisted.

Sánchez wanted to transmit calmly and focus on solving the problem much more than on analyzing the causes, on which he still had nothing solid to offer. “The electric current has already been restored in several areas of the north and south of the peninsula. The hydroelectric power plants are reactivated throughout the country.” In view of this data, the president expressed his confidence that the electric current could be restored throughout the country “soon”.

Both the president and various government sources have made efforts to suggest that they keep the situation under control, writes Pais. Other places where electricity is essential, such as hospitals, could work relatively normal due to generators, although numerous surgical operations had to be suspended.

On Tuesday, at 9:00, a new meeting of the National Security Council will be convened at the Palace at Moncloa, chaired by King Felipe VI.