The power crisis that classifies the government’s emergency plan “devastating” | Spain

The National Security Council has declared an unprecedented “power crisis” Blackout According to President Pedro Sanchez that it has begun to influence Spain and Portugal from 12.32 pm, on the show without questions in La Monchlova. According to the EU 2019/41 command, the power crisis is “the current or imminent situation in which there is a significant shortage of electricity, which is determined by the member states and explained in their risk schemes.”

This kind of statement Crisis It is forced to send the affected country – as the government has done effectively – to the European Commission “initial warning” and to inform it, and the Southwestern EU member states in the Southwest region, the actions taken to reduce it, and the help of other European states.

So -cald Preparation plan against power crises in Spain, It has a level of electrical crisis, which is very low, low, devastating, and very serious. The crisis is classified in a minimum limit when the AES index (power not supplied power) in the annual demand of Spain in MWH (megawatts bell) is less than 0.002%; And maximum, when ENS is greater than or higher than 0.25%. The crisis is less severe if this condition is less than three hours and 168 hours (one week) or more. The number of harmful housing that is not affected by the affected population or power supply is also taken into account. Although it is still in the beginning to classify it, this blackout is the most serious that Spain has experienced so far.

After declaring the power crisis, the Ministry of Environment and Population – It is the third Vice President Sara Azesen – an effective authority to manage the crisis, can collect information from energy, regional governments or armed forces, in many other organizations.

In the 31 crisis scenes of the EU planned, the plan selects 10 for Spain and ignores the less likely to consider others. These scenes depend on their cause in nine categories: cyber attacks, physical attacks, extreme weather phenomena, natural disasters, fuel shortage, human factor, market defects, technical failures and others.

Finally, in this order, the plan for Spain is 10 in this order: pandemic; Excessive storm; Cyber ​​attack against control systems; Cyber ​​attack on critical teams used in control, protection and telecommunication activities; Physical attack on critical infrastructure; Physical attack on the control center; Local technical failure (fire or explosion in complex property); Destruction of internal staff; Forest fire; And the volcanic eruption (the second was added to the old peak on the La Palma Island in 2021).

None of these scenes explained the sudden loss of 15 giggwatts at the time, 60% equal to the Spanish demand for electricity, which caused the sharp incision of the Iberian Peninsula, which caused the president in the second exhibition last night

The cause of the Great Blackout is yet to be unknown, but mostly considered a technical problem or cyber attack. The first is considered by the Spanish plan in the case of fire or explosion in the complex activation of the system, in this case, in this case, as a relief measure to reduce damage, “the real -time technical limitations app to maintain frequency frequency revisions outside the established limits.” If the cause of collective failure is due to cyber failure, there are no indications so far, after the crisis has been triggered, it is recommended to receive a series of measures, from the active operation of the system to the secondary or repetitive control or operation centers, the independent work team will be independent.

In the Ministry of Environment, which is used as a crisis coordinator, the responsible authority is the fuel policy and the General Directorate of the Mines, which is European Commission, Member States Officers and Electric Manager; This plan provides for the participation of other ministries such as health, internal and protection.

If the crisis is needed, the security of emergency services and the security of the people may be assembled, attending “victims’ protection and protection”; To ensure their reception in health services and health companies; Social services, to provide assistance to affected; Safety services, which can surround the affected area, can maintain the order, empty the people or maintain traffic; And to achieve the technical services, “the instant rehabilitation of the necessary public services.”

Before the power crisis occurs, there is usually a previous warning, but “the threat/risk and the first negative effects (and power cuts) will develop.” In the cases that took place on Monday, the Ministry of Environment, through all the communication channels available to the European Commission, to the EU member states in the same area and to the effective officers of neighboring countries such as Morocco and Andora; Something should have occurred yesterday. All system operators need to plan, to overcome the crisis, the real -time information is exchanged.

The Plan for the Red Electric (Readi) adoption of emergency plans and the establishment of the service re -ment, which also thinks about the “automatic shot of some generation of facilities” after the pre -defined sudden, is reduced to maintain the security of the system. It also thinks of using replacement reserves or change of international inter -connection programs. Finally, it thinks that “after the supply cuts that have caused the” supply cuts “to return the power system to the general state of its normal operation. The law gives the government the ability to use the strategic reserves of natural gas to meet the emergency.

Once the crisis is approved, the Ministry of Environment should conduct an analysis of its analysis, which at least the causes of it, the measures taken to reduce it, proposals for the impact of supply cutting, so that it does not repeat.