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At 8 p.m. Monday, April 28, “France has been able to increase its aid to Spain up to 2,000 megawatts via the power lines that feed Catalonia and the Spanish Basque Country from France”<\/em>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.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n 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”<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n 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”<\/em>added RTE, stating that the whole had been “Restified quickly”<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n EDF for its part reported that “Around 12:30 p.m. Monday, the number 1 production unit of the Golfech nuclear power plant”<\/em> located in the southwest of France (Tarn-et-Garonne), had “Automatically stopped”, “in accordance with the reactor security and protection devices”<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n 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”<\/em>said EDF without giving the answer.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n