The main security and defense officials in Spain met Wednesday morning to discuss the blackout in the Iberian Peninsula this week, which arrested the critical infrastructure for up to 18 hours in some areas.
The authorities in Spain and Portugal are under pressure to discover what captivated the electricity grid to close. The Spanish government has asked European regulators and several national agencies to investigate what happened.
The National Security Council of Spain Convent in Madrid at 9 am local time to discuss the blackout. The Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, head of his defense personnel and the directors of the National Intelligence Center and the National Security Department were expected to attend.
The Council of Ministers of Spain was also celebrating a meeting focused on the interruption at 10 am
The blackout, which was Monday afternoon, stopped much of daily life in Spain and Portugal until electricity was restored to the two countries on Tuesday morning. He has raised doubts about whether a rapid change of the National Network operator of Spain, Red Electric, to trust renewable energy, the network made the interruptions more full.
Mr. Sánchez said Tuesday that his government had created a commission led by the Ministry for Ecological Transition to investigate what had happened.
Spanish authorities are also analyzing other possible explanations.
Red Electrica has said that there is no evidence of a cyber attack in the transmission network. But a judge ordered Red Eléctrica on Tuesday, the intelligence and police service that produced reports within 10 days about whether a cyber attack was behind the blackout, according to a judicial document.
Mr. Sánchez said that the Cryptological National Center, a department of the National Intelligence Center by Cyberthreeats, was reviewing “the risks derived from this electrical emergency.”
“Computer records of red electric and private operators are already being examined to ensure that the hypothesis is not ruled out,” he said at a press conference.
After the energy was restored, the Ministry of Interior of Spain on Tuesday night deactivated most of the emergency statements that had been instituted during the blackout, degrading many regions from the highest regional to medium to medium.
Madrid and the western region of Extremadura remained at the highest level on Wednesday because they had not requested the reduction, the ministry said.
