MADRID (Reuters) -Spanish power utilities lobby Aelec said on Monday that Spain's power plants complied with orders from national grid operator REE during the massive blackout across Spain and
Spanish power utilities blame grid operator for April blackout
MADRID (Reuters) -Spanish power utilities lobby Aelec on Monday blamed the grid operator REE's poor planning for the massive blackout that hit Spain and Portugal on April 28, rejecting REE's claim earlier that power plants were the ones responsible for the outage.
Aelec's chair Marina Serrano told reporters during a presentation of the group's own report on the blackout the country's power plants had complied with the orders they received from REE, a unit of Redeia, during the blackout.
The report points to insufficient planning of conventional power generation, Aelec's expert Anton Garcia Diaz said.
Redeia's chairwoman Beatriz Corredor on Wednesday blamed conventional power plants - thermal power plants using coal, gas and nuclear - for failing to help maintain an appropriate voltage.
She disputed an earlier report from the Energy Ministry that found that REE's failure to calculate the correct mix of energy was one of the factors hindering the grid's ability to cope with the power outage.
(Reporting by Pietro Lombardi; Writing by Emma Pinedo and Inti Landauro; Editing by David Latona)
