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Spanish power utilities blame grid operator for April blackout
Published by Global Banking & Finance Review®
Posted on June 23, 2025
1 min readLast updated: January 23, 2026
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Published by Global Banking & Finance Review®
Posted on June 23, 2025
1 min readLast updated: January 23, 2026
Spanish utilities blame REE for April blackout, citing poor planning. REE disputes, blaming power plants.
MADRID (Reuters) -Spanish power utilities lobby Aelec on Monday blamed the grid operator REE's poor planning for the massive blackout that hit Spain and Portugal on April 28, rejecting REE's claim earlier that power plants were the ones responsible for the outage.
Aelec's chair Marina Serrano told reporters during a presentation of the group's own report on the blackout the country's power plants had complied with the orders they received from REE, a unit of Redeia, during the blackout.
The report points to insufficient planning of conventional power generation, Aelec's expert Anton Garcia Diaz said.
Redeia's chairwoman Beatriz Corredor on Wednesday blamed conventional power plants - thermal power plants using coal, gas and nuclear - for failing to help maintain an appropriate voltage.
She disputed an earlier report from the Energy Ministry that found that REE's failure to calculate the correct mix of energy was one of the factors hindering the grid's ability to cope with the power outage.
(Reporting by Pietro Lombardi; Writing by Emma Pinedo and Inti Landauro; Editing by David Latona)
Aelec blamed the grid operator REE's poor planning for the massive blackout that affected Spain and Portugal on April 28.
The report pointed to insufficient planning of conventional power generation as a key issue contributing to the blackout.
Redeia's chairwoman Beatriz Corredor attributed the blackout to conventional power plants failing to maintain appropriate voltage.
The Energy Ministry's report indicated that REE's failure to calculate the correct energy mix was a significant factor affecting grid stability, which Aelec disputed.
The article was reported by Pietro Lombardi and written by Emma Pinedo and Inti Landauro.
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