In addition, and according to data from Red Electrica – the Spanish Energy Manager – and the Spanish Ministry of Ecological Transition, 100 % of the substations of the electricity transport network are already in service.
However, replacement work continues from the Electrical Control Center to try to recover full normality after the mass electric blackout that affected the entire Iberian Peninsula.
The country is gradually recovering normality of an unpublished event in Spain that caused a generalized blackout of the electric current, The disconnection of mobile communications and incidents in commerce, industry and, above all, in the transport network.
The blackout began on Monday, at 12.33 hours after the “sudden disappearance” of 15 power gigavatives in just five seconds, which were 60 % of the electricity supply at that time throughout Spain, for reasons that are still investigated.
According to Red Eléctrica, there was a strong oscillation of the network power flow accompanied by a loss of “very important” generation, but it has not yet been determined what has caused this event.
Normality at airports and renfe
The situation at Spanish airports is of operational normality on Tuesday, April 29, as explained by the Minister of Transportation, Oscar Puente, who is confident that all flights of this day can be operated and relocated to passengers affected by the blackout.
In his X account, Puente stressed that, during the day on Monday, airports operated 93 % of commercial flights and that all the long radio flights could also leave, except for a Barcelona-Philadelphia.
Renfe also takes up his activity after 48,638 people were left without traveling on the eve due to the blackout and more than 35 thousand had to be evacuated from paralyzed convoys in difficult access areas.
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In parallel, the main operators working in Spain are close to recovering the usual service.