Antoni Bassas' analysis: 'Unexplained blackout, no. Unexplained.'

At the time I am speaking to you, when It will soon be 24 hours since the big blackout, they still haven't given any explanation. Either they still don't have a precise and certain idea, because all the causes remain possible, or it's so serious that they must find the words to explain it. It's incredible, but a blackout completely stopped Spain, Andorra, and Portugal for hours, and We still don't know anything about the causes.

At 2/4 of 1 and two minutes, in a matter of five seconds, 15 gigawatts of supply suddenly disappear. It's not an inexplicable blackout, it's an unexplained blackout. Red Eléctrica spoke yesterday of "oscillating flows", and Pedro Sánchez of "strong oscillation" in the electrical system. But Red Eléctrica has records, and should be able to say where the drop in generation began and why it was commissioned. And respond questions like this one from Albert Cuesta:

"Let's see if one of our intrepid Nostrat journalists asks a serious expert how a supposed fault between Perpignan and Narbonne (they said it, not me) could bring down the entire Iberian electricity grid if we only have 6% interconnection with Europe."

Is it possible there was a mismatch between supply and demand in April? When the air conditioners aren't even working and the heaters aren't working yet? And when it gets dark at 8:30 p.m.? April and October are maintenance months. When one point fails, don't we have firewalls to prevent the entire network from going down?

Sánchez didn't show up until 6 p.m., to say the least. Isla didn't show up until 8:30, to say the least. Communication was lacking in empathy and not very helpful. It wasn't the best day for either of them.

And, by the way, do you know which service wasn't running this morning? You guessed it: Cercanías (local trains). It wasn't running because the electricity it needs isn't stable enough. On Madrid's Cercanías (local trains), by early morning, service was already at 50%.

Three things to finish: If you want to know more about why power outages occur, read this page signed by Xavier Grau del Cerro.

What an irony: now we have to spend on defense, when all of Spain is in the dark, and almost 24 hours later we still don't know why? Perhaps defense should start by securing the network.

And a plea: let's not kill the radio waves, the batteries, or the cash, we were lucky yesterday. Nor do we trust in living in a fully digital world.

Good morning.