After the dark tonight … the return of electricity in Spain and Portugal almost completely
On the streets of different neighborhoods in Spain, the residents often received the return of the current on Monday evening with applause and the trends of joy after a long day without electricity, often accompanied by the interruption of the Internet and the service of mobile phones.
About six o’clock in the time of the Spanish time (four o’clock), the current returned by more than 99.16 % at the national level in continental Spain, according to the company, “REE”, which operates the network.
In Portugal, the operator of the network said on Tuesday morning that the electricity supplies returned to normal in the country.
In Spain, the return of the current allowed the resumption of the movement of trains on several major axes, including Madrid-Seville and Madrid-Barcelona, according to what the national company “Renvie” said. But the movement is still stopped on other major lines, as the authorities decided to give priority to trips between cities.
Until on Tuesday morning, three trains were still stuck in Spain and have passengers, according to the Minister of Transport, Oscar Benneh.
In Madrid, the movement of the subway is still suspended. “We continue to work to return the service,” the operator of the transportation company said, “We continue to work to return the service,” and advised the residents to independently of the buses.
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez did not go to the reasons for the comprehensive electricity interruption, which occurred at 10,33 GMT on Monday.
“We do not exclude any hypothesis.” No collapse like this happened on the Spanish network “said during a press conference, explaining that” 15 gigawatts “of electricity” suddenly lost “on the Spanish network” in five seconds barely. “
He explained that “15 Giga is equivalent to approximately 60% of the demand for electricity in Spain at that hour of the day.
His Portuguese counterpart, Luis Montenegro, talked about a “dangerous and unprecedented situation” due to “Spain most likely.”
“I was sitting in my office when the computer suddenly turned off,” Edgar Pariri, 34 -year -old advertising employee in Lisbon.
“In the beginning, we thought that the problem was confined to the building, and then we started contacting our relatives and friends, and we realized that the problem includes the entire city, and then that the same situation is recorded in Spain.”
In the middle of Madrid, as in Barcelona, citizens and tourists gathered in front of the facades of luxury hotels or banks to take advantage of the continuous free wireless internet service thanks to the generators of electricity.
On Monday, thousands of people were forced to cross the city, trying to return to their homes. The main boulevards in the Portuguese capital witnessed a suffocating traffic crisis, while passers -by were infiltrating between cars.
Long queues spread over hundreds of meters in front of bus stations. “Look at the long queue wrapped. I needed an hour and a half to get here and I don’t know how much time I will wait for my house,” said Rosario Benia, an employee of a 39 -year -old fast food restaurant.
Hours after this, traffic and lighting signals returned to store facades in an indication of the least improved situation in the Spanish capital.
In the Madrid region alone, 286 intervention operations occurred to help people stuck in the elevators, according to the local authorities.
Opening schools
On Tuesday morning, schools reopened their doors in Spain, but Sanchez warned that “educational activities” may be attached to the most affected by the electricity interruptions.
“The lack of security problems. Our hospital system is working properly” calling on citizens “to act responsibly and in a manner.” Despite the chaos resulting from the holidays, the atmosphere remained calm and friendly in the streets of Madrid.
He said that the return of electricity in part was made through networking with France and Morocco, stressing that the gas and electrical energy stations “were restarted in all countries.”
Spanish nuclear reactors were suspended in a natural safety, in the event of power outages.
In Europe, a failure of the German network on the fourth of November 2006 led to the power of 10 million people, half of them in France and the rest in Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands and Italy as well as Spain for more than an hour.
Three years ago, the electricity was completely cut off from Italy, with the exception of Sardinia, on September 28, 2003.
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