The traffic light shines again from red to green. Subways were running in Madrid and Lisbon. And the waiters were serving beer and alcohol food and liberal victims for the guardians on the roofs of the restaurant with cool-to-normal roads.
A day after Spain and Portugal hit the broad blackout, the power returned to most areas of the two countries on Tuesday, which brought many relief, but it is also rapidly important what was actually the cause of power failure.
Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanches said that his country had recovered more than 95 percent of the total supply by 6.30 am on Tuesday morning. In Portugal, a spokesperson of the power and gas supplier Rain said that electricity was restored for all the sub -stations of the country’s grid and all this was “100 percent operations”.
But the reason for the blackout, which was unknown to millions of people on the Iberian Peninsula, remained unknown.
Eduardo Preeto, director of the services for Spain’s National Power Company, Red Elatrica, said there were no “definite conclusions” about the reasons for the outage.
He joined a chorus of officials who announced that there was no cyber security attack. But he also rejected human error and meteorological reasons.
He said that the Spanish power system was closed after two separate power outage, one second and one and a half.
“It may look like a small amount,” he said, “but in the electrical world, it is an important amount.” He said that there was a shutdown in South -West Spain.
Mr. Sanchies said that his second priority of his government, after ensuring that the power was completely restored, was to analyze whether it was closed – both through a technical analysis committee at the national level and through the European Commission.
“Citizens should be clear that the Spanish government will reach the bottom of the matter and will implement the necessary measures to ensure that it never happens again, and we will hold private operators accountable,” Mr. Sanchez said on Tuesday.
A judge along with the Spanish National Court ordered to be submitted to him within 10 days – in which one from the police headquarters and another in charge of cyber attack from National Intelligence Department
Although Mr. Sanchies said that he expected a response within the next “hours or days”, Christian Ruby, General Secretary of Eurrectic, a business body that represents the European power industry, said that it could take months to complete technical analysis.
But some preliminary information has already been revealed, he said. Around the afternoon on Monday, a high-voltage connection between France and Spain was interrupted. Power outage happened only after 30 minutes.
While this obstruction would have been disruptive, it would not usually move towards “system collapse”, as seen on Monday, Mr. Ruby said. Some more usually needs to be there, “suddenly, like the outage in the power plant, sudden development,” he said. “Then you can be such an incident.”
Mr. Ruby told the outage “on a scale between the incident of 50 to 100 years.”
Both Spain and Portugal closed on Monday afternoon. Traffic lights got dark, trains and subway stopped, the lift stopped – many people got stuck inside.
Businesses, factories and schools are closed, and canceled the delays in airports and canceled flights.
There were problems in joining the Internet and joining the phone network, many panic and unable to get information.
A geology professor at Florida University Joe Mert said he and his wife Mitchell were among 35,000 passengers trapped in trains in Spain on Monday afternoon.
He was traveling from Madrid to Valencia as part of his 30th anniversary ceremony trip. Instead, he spent the dimming light and then in the dark, seeing the fields of the fields outside the Madrid for more than 11 hours.
Finally, around midnight, the merts were directed to climb on another train and then gradually returned to the Atocha station in Madrid by a diesel engine. There, red cross workers and soldiers distributed blankets for a crowd of passengers overnight.
Shri Mert, 67, said, “This was packed. People were lying everywhere.” In the morning, the couple was able to catch another train to resume the journey.
When Roshni suddenly returned on Monday evening, Cheers spread to Madrid.
In the cities of Spain and Portugal, Jeevan was returning to Fourst on Tuesday. While the subway returned to Madrid and Lisbon, the National Railway System of Spain reported that many of its commuters had reduced or canceled the service.
The Ministry of Spanish Transport said that all the airports were working. In Portugal, Infrastructure Minister, Miguel Pinto Luz announced that it would take “two or three days” for flights to return to Lisbon’s International Airport normally.
“Yesterday, there was practically no flight, and they were supported with today’s flights,” Mr. Pinto Lauz told The News Channel Now.
Mobile phone and fiber optic service was working again. Madrid Open, an international tennis tournament, returned Is moving up and After the outage, on Tuesday, on Tuesday, 22 matches were forced to cancel. Schools were opened in both countries, although there were some low appearances.
“It seems that everything is better today, but I do not understand how something like this is possible with all the technology we have today,” an 87 -year -old retiring, Doroto Garcia said, Madrid’s still crowded Atocha train is running with difficulty. He spent one day before getting caught in his apartment, he said, because the lift was not working.
“I lived out of canned sardine all day because I couldn’t cook,” he said.
In Central Lisbon, the parks were filled with runners and stretchers on Tuesday afternoon and returned to the business, which were closed during a brief crisis.
At the Roads Restaurant, tables were set for lunch rush. Manager, Hugo Karwalho said that the restaurant had no major damage due to power cuts.
He said that during the blackout, the restaurant closed at 6 pm and he had to worry about only one thing, the freezer had ice cream.
Mr. Karwalho smiled and said, “We ate most of it.”
Azam Ahmed Contribution of reporting from Lisbon; Penich, Spain to Tiago Caisco; Jonathan Wolf from Murcia, Spain; And Jonathan from Seoul.
