Blackout

The Royal Decree that obliges electricity companies to discount power outages on the bill: Facua denounces five distributors for the blackout

The organization relies on Royal Decree 1955/2000, which establishes the obligation to apply discounts on billing when electricity supply quality levels are not met. Facua maintains that these compensations should have been applied during the blackout. Facua takes five electricity distributors to the CNMC for the blackout Facua-Consumidores en Acción has reported...

Independent science communicators detect 7 reasons that could have avoided the great blackout

This Monday, the Constitutional Chamber of Congress has brought together two panels of science communicators and energy experts to explain, in a monographic conference -followed by Demócrata-, what were the causes of the energy blackout that, in some parts of our geography, lasted more than 12 hours exactly one year...

Less dogma and more energy realism

When electricity fails, not only do the lights go out, the economy stops. A year ago, the great blackout that affected millions of citizens and businesses in Spain and Portugal highlighted a reality that is often overlooked: the security of the electricity supply is not guaranteed by itself, but depends...

Red Eléctrica launches a documentary about the great blackout and emphasizes the speed in restoring power

Red Eléctrica has produced and released a documentary to mark the first anniversary of the blackout that on April 28, 2025, left a large part of Spanish territory without electricity supply. The audiovisual piece focuses on the agility with which the company's teams managed to restore service and on the...

Live, the PP commemorates one year since the blackout

On the eve of the first anniversary of the great blackout of April 28, 2025, the PP holds a commemoration day in Congress. The party president, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, is in charge of inaugurating it. Under the title "One year after the great blackout", two round tables are planned. The first,...

The great blackout: what is known about the blackout one year later

It seems like yesterday when the energy blackout left Spain and Portugal without electricity supply for several hours. The system's restoration after the blackout was progressive, reaching approximately half of the supply that same night and practically all of it the following morning, according to information gathered in official reports. Subsequent...

One year since the great blackout: after reports and commissions, responsibility remains unclear

This Tuesday, April 28, marks one year since the historic electrical blackout that left millions of people in Spain and Portugal without power for hours. Twelve months later, with several reports already presented and one parliamentary commission closed and another in full activity, a clear responsible party for the event...

The CNMC defends that on the day of the blackout there were already sufficient mechanisms to control the system's voltage

The president of the National Commission of Markets and Competition (CNMC), Cani Fernández, specified this Tuesday in Congress that on the day of the 2025 blackout, "sufficient" regulatory mechanisms were operational to control the electricity system's voltage and that at no time was there a "regulatory vacuum". During his appearance before...

Endesa maintains that REE refused to evaluate pre-blackout surges, deeming them not to be an incident

The CEO of Endesa, José Bogas, assured this Monday that Red Eléctrica de España (REE) declined to study several overvoltage episodes in the network two months before the blackout of April 28, 2025, understanding that they did not constitute "any incident".This statement is part of the conclusions that the head...

The CNMC opens several sanctioning proceedings for indications of infringement after the great electrical blackout

The National Commission for Markets and Competition (CNMC) has informed this Friday of the opening of several sanctioning files for "indications of infringement" within the framework of the investigations it is carrying out regarding the blackout registered on April 28, 2025.In a note sent to the media, the supervisory body...

The Blackout Investigation Commission 'sentences' Red Eléctrica and the Government

The Investigation Commission created in the Senate, to study the reasons for the blackout of last year in the month of April, considers REE and Redeia responsible for the blackout, the Government of Spain through MITECO and, appreciates a relevant institutional responsibility of the CNMC for its regulatory and supervisory inaction. Responsible...

The PP holds Aagesen responsible for the seven deaths of the great blackout and demands his immediate resignation

The general secretary of the PP, Miguel Tellado, pointed out this Wednesday in Congress to the third vice-president and minister for Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge, Sara Aagesen, as the political responsible for the seven fatal victims and for the millionaire losses derived from the blackout of April 28,...

(The complete audios) Red Eléctrica recognized before the blackout that without nuclear plants "at some point we almost certainly crash"

Demócrata has had access to the set of recordings that took place before the blackout, last April, between Red Eléctrica, and different operators. In these conversations, divided into four audios, one can appreciate the tension that exists due to the fear that the electrical grid will become congested and melt down...

The PP declares concluded the Senate commission on the great blackout and states that Sánchez's Government “scorned” the warnings

The PP, which holds an absolute majority in the Senate, has decided to end the work of the investigation committee on the blackout after the recent interventions by Vice President Sara Aagesen and Redeia's president, Beatriz Corredor. The popular party members maintain that Pedro Sánchez's Executive “knew it could happen”...

One of the audios from the day of the blackout: Red Eléctrica: "Fuck, fuck, fuck, come on, to hell with it, to hell with it! We are disconnecting."

At 10:15 h this Wednesday, a new session of the board and spokespersons of the blackout commission has been held, where new audios have been able to be heard, this time corresponding to the same day of the blackout. These are recordings that had been destroyed, but that the spokespersons were...

Aagesen asks companies to publish all information about the April 28 blackout

The third vice-president and minister for Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge, Sara Aagesen, defended that it would be “a good exercise in transparency” for the companies involved to make all the information they have available about the power outage of April 28, 2025. During his/her intervention in the Senate's investigation...

The European report on the blackout avoids pointing out culprits

The massive electricity supply cut of April 28, 2025 originated from “multiple factors that interacted with each other” starting from a “very local problem” in southern Spain that “escalated very quickly,” according to the conclusions of the final report prepared by the panel of experts of the European Network of...