Iberdrola will sue the president of Red Eléctrica for having blamed her for the blackout.

MadridIberdrola will take legal action against the president of Red Eléctrica España (REE), Beatriz Corredor, after she attributed the massive power outage of April 28 to the non-compliance of conventional groups. This was confirmed to Efe by legal sources and reported on Monday by the newspaper The World, the electricity company maintains that Corredor's statements on September 11 constitute an "attack on its honor," although the president of the Spanish electricity system operator did not mention the company at any time.

Specifically, on September 11, during an appearance in the Senate, Corredor defended Red Eléctrica's actions as system operator and insisted on linking the power blackout to the non-compliance of certain conventional generators, referring to the power generation plants owned by companies. "The cause of the blackout was the failure of the conventional generators to comply with the current obligation of voltage control regarding the absorption of reactive power," said the president of Red Eléctrica.

On May 30, Iberdrola filed a petition with the Supreme Court requesting information on the legal basis for the analysis committee created by the Spanish government to investigate the massive blackout in April, which left the entire Iberian Peninsula without power for hours. The company, chaired by José Ignacio Sánchez Galán, wants to know if there is legal basis for this committee created by the Spanish government, whose objective was to analyze the causes of the blackout. The experts requested information from the companies and sent technicians to their facilities.Red Eléctrica, the operator of the Spanish electricity system, declined to comment.

Since the investigation into the causes of the blackout began, Red Eléctrica has not hesitated to focus attention on the companies in the sector, particularly the large electricity companies, while the main employers' association in the sector, Aelec, points to the operator as the sole culprit for the incident. In June, Corredor insisted that if the electricity companies "had guaranteed compliance with all their voltage control regulations, the [massive] blackout would not have occurred, based on all available data, if all the plants had been connected at the time of the incident."