Spain Reveals Details of Chain Reaction That Caused Outage
Pedestrians try to use their mobile phones on an unlit street during a power outage in Molins de Rei on April 28.
Photographer: Angel Garcia/BloombergSpain’s most-detailed account yet of the missteps leading to April’s nationwide blackout failed to fully explain why the power grid was so unstable in the first place.
Over 182 pages, including redactions that blot out the names of companies and power stations, the government laid blame at the grid operator for failing to ensure enough backup generation, and on unnamed plant operators for not fulfilling their commitments for the day.