Portuguese companies may lose more than 2 billion with blackout
71% of companies “report failure in appointments with customers such as deliveries and services”. There are no emergency energy systems such as generators or ‘backup’ batteries and wants to be offset due to losses from blackout.
Cheema Moya
Electric Blackout dated April 28 costs 2 billion euros to national institutions, 99% of companies participate Portuguese Industrial Association (AIP) to say that it is affected.
In a statement, 71% of companies showed that “the failure of clients such as deliveries and services”, and shows that the results show that there are no emergency fuel systems such as generators or ‘backup’ batteries for 57% of companies.
On the other hand, in the financial plan, “99% of the affected companies are high in the industrial sector. The damage of national institutions is estimated to be over two billion euros.”
Most people want to get compensation
According to the trial results, most companies (67%) are expected to compensate for this, with greater protected compensatory forms “direct compensation (43%) and reduction of rates or fuel tax (32%)”.
The trial “strong consensus on responsibility, 93% of companies argue that the Portugal and Spanish governments should look into and compensate.”
Companies have considered “the main responsibility for the damage caused by the blackout” by the Electric Network of Spain and Ren – National Energy Networks.
“49% of the companies think they have made an official complaint, but 42% do not want to do that,” the investigation showed.
The inquiry into blackout inpacts affected by the Iberian peninsula on April 28 is 1,710 commercial enterprises, throughout the national territory between May 2 and 06 and 2025.
