Experts speak about sudden power outages – Roya News English

Experts speak about sudden power outages – Roya News English

A parliament-sanctioned fact-finding committee on Tuesday announced that the wide power outage that occurred in Jordan on May 21 was caused by swings on the Jordan-Egypt electricity interconnection, whose exchange capacity abnormally oscillated between 70 to 300 megawatts (MW).

Initially, the committee could not determine what caused the power swings, as it later on ruled out the possibility of a deliberate act or a cyber attack.

"What happened is a physical condition and cannot be human-made.... if there were a cyber attack, it would have taken several days to be able to reprogram and restore the power supply," said Muhammad Friehat, the chief expert of the committee, while reading the final report to lawmakers.