Massive power outage brings most of Spain and Portugal to a standstill
A severe power outage across the Iberian peninsula has affected transport, card payments, flights and more in Spain and Portugal on Monday. The cause of the incident was not yet confirmed by Monday evening.
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A severe power outage across the Iberian peninsula has affected transport, card payments, flights and more in Spain and Portugal on Monday. The cause of the incident was not yet confirmed by Monday evening.
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00:00No working phone network, chaos on public transport and dead traffic lights.
00:07This has been the situation in large parts of Spain and Portugal on Monday following
00:11a massive power outage.
00:13The blackout brought much of Spain and Portugal to a standstill for the day and led Spain
00:18to declare a state of emergency for the regions that are requested on Monday evening.
00:23As you know, today there has been a strong oscillation in technical terms in the European
00:31electrical grid which has triggered a widespread interruption of supply throughout the Iberian
00:36Peninsula and in some areas of southern France.
00:41Spanish power distributor Red Electrica said that restoring power fully to the country and
00:46neighbouring Portugal could take between six and ten hours.
00:50The situation had improved by Monday evening.
00:52For the moment, the power supply has already been restored in several territories in the
00:58north and south of the peninsula, thanks to the interconnections with France and Morocco.
01:04While the cause for the outage has not yet been determined, first reports suggest a rare
01:08atmospheric phenomenon could have been behind it.
01:12Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said that investigations were still ongoing.
01:17Meanwhile, Portuguese authorities said a cyber-attack has so far been excluded as a cause of the
01:23blackout.