No it didn't.
A lack of redundancy caused an islandwide outage.
A lack of redundancy caused an islandwide outage.
> Sunday's disruption also affected the island's only 900 MW coal fired power plant, causing it to operate in safe mode, the CEB said. "All efforts are being made to restore the grid to full capacity but power cuts will be implemented to manage peak demand hours in the night," the CEB statement added.
Digging a bit deeper, they appear to be running with very little margin, if any. Meaning redundancy and protection against cascading failures is limited.
Fixing the real cause is expensive, so it's often easier to just blame the trigger—though admittedly in this case it makes for a great headline. :)
It's not like the monkey deployed special monkey skills beyond "occupy space while being electrically conductive".