Power restored in Spain, Portugal but reason for blackout remains a mystery

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Power restored in Spain, Portugal but reason for blackout remains a mystery  Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez says “no hypothesis is being ruled out” as he vows to investigate and uncover the cause behind the massive blackout that gripped much of the Iberian Peninsula on Monday.   READ MORE : http://www.euronews.com/2025/04/30/power-restored-in-spain-portugal-but-reason-for-blackout-remains-a-mystery  Subscribe to our channel. Euronews is available on Dailymotion in 12 languages

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00:00As Spain and Portugal slowly returned to normal following nationwide blackouts,

00:07the cause of the disruption remained a mystery on Tuesday.

00:11Portugal's Prime Minister Luís Montenegro has called for an EU inquiry,

00:15while his Spanish counterpart Pedro Sánchez said reforms will be made to ensure it does not happen again.

00:22It is, therefore, also important that, face to a less positive expectation,

00:29which was still outlined in our dependence, namely with Spain,

00:36we know that the problem that was caused

00:39does not have to do with the lack of production and distribution in Portugal.

00:46It has to do with exactly this connection.

00:49Spain's private operator, Red Electrica, has ruled out a cyber attack,

00:53but Sánchez said his government will also still conduct an independent analysis.

00:58And they are already examining the electronic records of the electric network

01:02and also private operators, to not discard any hypothesis.

01:07I say this because the electric network has made us know

01:12that it will discard on the transport network any cyber attack.

01:16We value this aspect positively,

01:19but in all cases, the responsibility of the government of Spain is to do an independent analysis.

01:25By Tuesday morning, Red Electrica said 99% of energy demand in Spain was restored,

01:31and Portuguese grid operator REN said all its power substations were back online.

01:36when the European Union was restored.

01:42And the European Union was traditionally drawn from the United States for three years.

01:45The four years ago, West Africa was also known as European European Union and Europe.

01:47For more than Next, the European Union was at the Sofia and the European Union

01:52in the UK of the UK of the UK of the UK of the UK of the UK,

01:54and the European Union was by more than one of the European Union in the UK,

01:55and the European Union was opened to the UK.

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