Telephones, internet and lights were working again, train services resumed, shops reopened and workers flocked back to offices in Spain and Portugal following the outage Monday that lasted up to 20 hours in some places.
“All the necessary measures will be taken to ensure that this does not happen again,“ he told a press conference.
Although the causes are unknown, “cyberterrorism is among” the potential explanations and the “critical situation” generated for the population meant an investigation was necessary, the court said.
“There was no type of intrusion in Red Electrica’s control systems that may have caused the incident,“ REE’s director of operations, Eduardo Prieto, said at a news conference.
“We must make the necessary improvements to secure supply,“ he wrote on X after the talks.
Sanchez also denied reports that a shortfall of nuclear energy was behind the outage, saying proponents of the suggestion were “lying or demonstrating their ignorance” in a response to criticism from the far-right Vox party.
Portuguese Prime Minister Luis Montenegro, who is facing an early general election next month, said his government had requested an independent audit of electrical systems from the EU Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER) and created a commission to assess the handling of the crisis.
The high percentage of renewables in Spain’s energy mix “exposed difficulties in balancing intermittent supply, while Portugal’s complete reliance on imports underscored its lack of flexibility and energy storage”, Ramdas wrote in a research note.
People in both countries began to recover a semblance of normality Tuesday after the chaos and confusion, with businesses and schools reopening.
Susana, a 50-year-old finance sector worker in Madrid who declined to give her full name, said she struggled Monday during her 90-minute trek home on foot -- in heels.
Some people, like 32-year-old lawyer Marcos Garcia, welcomed the pause as “an afternoon of respite, a technology break, an impromptu disconnection”.
Madrid’s Atocha station was packed with expectant travellers on Tuesday who cheered every time a departure was announced.
Thousands of stranded travellers slept in train stations overnight and streets were plunged into darkness with all lampposts and traffic lights off.
The episode also affected areas of southwestern France as well as in Morocco and Denmark’s Arctic territory of Greenland.
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