Hope for improvements to electricity network security

Representatives in the Canaries of Red Eléctrica de España (REE) and Endesa-Unelco were up before the headmaster regional Parliament yesterday to answer questions about the circumstances surrounding the total blackouts, of which there have been three in the last year alone.

Both coincide on pointing to a bottleneck at the power station at Candelaria, which presents "an enormous potential risk" and the need to split the supply into two independent lines to reduce the potential impact.

The three general power cuts in Tenerife, caused by meteorological conditions, were extended to the entire network, because systems of protection and isolation did not function to prevent short circuits.

Santiago Marín, director of REE in the Canaries, points to the "inadequate configuration" of the systems of protection to isolate short circuits.

Pablo Casado, director of Unelco-Endesa, says that since the last incident, they have "readjusted the parameters" in order to achieve proper isolation if the problem is repeated.

Full report in Spanish: Canarias24horas.com

Photo: by Mataparda