Matthias Hollick and Florian Steinke explained in an interview with the F.A.Z. how Germany can prepare for a power blackout like those in Spain and Portugal.
In the online edition of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung from May 5, emergenCITY Coordinator Matthias Hollick and emergenCITY-PI Florian Steinke from the Technical University of Darmstadt spoke about the widespread power outage in Portugal and Spain. They describe why the greatest danger comes not from technical failures but from cyber attacks and how Germany can prepare for them.
“Yes, it can happen here too - even if Germany would be in a slightly better position to compensate for such an outage due to its location in the middle of Europe,” said Florian Steinke, Professor of Energy Information Networks and Systems at TU Darmstadt.
If one system fails, a second one must be able to take over its function - ideally one that is immune to the specific type of attack thanks to a different design, said Matthias Hollick, Professor of the Secure Mobile Networking Lab at TU Darmstadt.
The online article is available here.
The print edition of the article was published on May 6, 2025.
