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Aagesen Urges Power Companies to Publish All Records on 2025 Peninsular Blackout

Expert reports cite likely technical faults, with no responsibilities assigned.

Overview

  • Testifying to the Senate inquiry on Monday, Energy Minister Sara Aagesen invited electricity companies to make public all information on the 28 April 2025 outage.
  • Responding to a question about pre‑event calls between system and company technicians, she said releasing the referenced audios would serve transparency.
  • Aagesen said there had been no warnings or alerts before the blackout and that her ministry had no prior indication of risk.
  • She summarized three analyses as finding the event unprecedented and technically unpredictable, with likely causes including insufficient programming or generation units failing to respond as expected.
  • She noted that only Red Eléctrica authorized broader data disclosure during the expert review and stressed that liability will be decided in administrative and judicial proceedings.