Spain and Portugal decided, on Friday, to set up a joint support group responsible for identifying the causes of the large -scale electrical failure that affected the Iberian Peninsula on Monday.
This decision was made at the end of a meeting held by videoconferencing between the Spanish Secretary of State for the Ecological Transition, Sara Aagesen, and the Portuguese Minister of Environment and Energy, Maria Da Graça Carvalho, said a press release from the Spanish government.
The two parties agreed to cooperate closely to determine the origin of the incident and take the necessary measures to prevent such an event from happening again, adds the same source.
-They also stressed the importance of close coordination in the communication of information relating to this breakdown to the competent European institutions.
Speaking at the end of the meeting, the Portuguese minister reaffirmed the need to collect all the technical data available to understand the circumstances of this incident, qualified as a complex and unprecedented.
According to the Spanish authorities, the failure, which occurred on Monday at 12:33 pm (local time), caused an instantaneous fall equivalent to 60% of the country’s electricity consumption, or about 15 gigawatts, a phenomenon qualified as “unpublished” by the executive.
