The Third Vice-President and Minister for Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge, Sara Aagesen, revealed that the preliminary investigation into the electricity incident that plunged the Peninsula into an electrical zero has detected a third incident in the network that took place 19 seconds before the blackout that occurred in the south of the Peninsula.

The information was said by the minister during an interview on TVE, where she explained that the system was able to overcome this first incident normally, which was added to the other two disturbances that occurred in the previous five seconds in the southwest of the peninsula.

The information published so far by Red Eléctrica officials also indicates that the system managed to contain the second incident, a large-scale power fluctuation, but that it was unable to stop the third incident, which led to a power cut throughout the Iberian Peninsula for more than 10 hours.

The vice-president assured that the analysis committee is still working to “identify the cause, isolate it and put all the necessary measures in place so that it does not happen again.”