The Government Council of the Canary Islands has approved the decree that resolves the sanctioning procedure initiated against E-Distribución Redes Digitales, SLU, and Unión Eléctrica de Canarias Generación, SAU, both belonging to Endesa, for the commission of very serious administrative infractions provided for in Law 24/2013, of December 26, on the electricity sector, proposing a total fine of 16 million euros for the energy zero that took place in July 2020 in Tenerife.
According to the regional Executive, specifically, a fine of six million is established for the first entity and ten million for the second for the incident that began on July 15, 2020 at 9:41 a.m. in the Tenerife electrical system, which It caused a power zero throughout the island without full supply being able to be recovered until 4:44 p.m.
For its part, the investigation of the file proves that E-Distribución Redes Digitales, SLU, is responsible for not having shed the demand required in the current Shedding Plan approved by the CNE, which contributed to the incident leading to a total interruption of supply or zero electricity.
The lack of technical suitability of the configuration of the relay system in its facilities to meet the demand objectives to be de-loaded established in the current CNE plan was also proven.
For these reasons, in the resolution proposal of the instructor of the sanctioning procedure, the imposition of a fine of 6,000,001 euros is proposed for the commission of two very serious infractions.
Regarding Unión Eléctrica de Canarias Generación, the sanctioning procedure concludes that it is responsible for originating the chain of events that caused a reduction in the available generation capacity and a reduction in supply that led to an interruption of this, first partially and, finally, , in the form of electric zero.
For this reason, in the resolution proposal of the instructor of the sanctioning procedure, the imposition of a fine of 10,002,751 euros is proposed for the commission of two very serious administrative infractions.
