France sends watts to Spain and Portugal
At 8 p.m. Monday, April 28, “France has been able to increase its aid to Spain up to 2,000 megawatts [par] The power lines that fuel Catalonia and the Spanish Basque Country from France ”said a press release from the French manager of the RTE electrical network; 2,000 megawatts corresponding to the power of two nuclear reactors on average.
Returning to electric chaos that immobilized Spain and Portugal, RTE explains that the Iberian network has been “Automatically disconnected from the European network from 12:38 p.m. to 1:30 p.m., time at which the 400 kV line between French and Spanish Catalonia was put into service”.
Earlier, “At the start of the cut in Spain, homes in southwest France were deprived of power supply for a few minutes in the Basque Country”added RTE, stating that the whole had been “Restified quickly”.
EDF, for its part, reported that “Around 12:30 p.m. Monday, the number one production unit of the Golfech nuclear power plant”located in the southwest of France (Tarn-et-Garonne), “Automatically stopped”, “in accordance with the reactor security and protection devices”.
The central operating teams carried out checks to determine “If this judgment was linked or not to the electrical incident which affected Spain and Portugal”said EDF without giving the answer.