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Power is back on in Spain and Portugal, but questions remain about Monday’s blackout. Here’s what we know
Electricity is pulsing through Spain and Portugal again after a massive outage knocked out power for the entire ...
Spain Blackout Is First of Clean-Energy Era
Solar energy was powering the grid in Spain and Portugal on Monday—until it wasn’t, leaving tens of millions without ...
UK Hit by Unexplained Power Failures Hours Before Spain, Portugal Blackout
The outages occurred just hours before the Iberian Peninsula was hit by power cuts that crippled the countries' ...
How Spain’s Success in Renewable Energy May Have Left It Vulnerable
The Iberian Peninsula’s widespread blackout raises questions about the resilience of the electric power infrastructure in the ...
A day without power: What 12 hours of darkness looked like in Spain and Portugal
Alanna Gladstone, a 40-year-old film editor, had landed in Portugal’s capital, Lisbon, on a flight from New York hours before ...
Cause of Spain power outage still unclear after mass blackout, travel chaos
Red Eléctrica, Spain’s electricity grid operator, ruled out a cyberattack, human error or unusual weather. Experts say it ...
Stuck in a Dentist’s Chair, and Other Blackout Tales From Spain and Portugal
Even as electricity was restored across Spain and Portugal after a daylong blackout, residents tried to make sense of 18 ...
Spain and Portugal rule out cyber-attack as cause of power cut, as travel chaos continues
Power has now been fully restored in Spain and Portugal, as officials continue to investigate what caused the outage.
Without power, Spain’s trains were immobilized. Three travelers shared their tales
The blackout that paralyzed the Iberian Peninsula had an especially fierce impact on trains that run across Spain.
How did Spain’s electricity grid collapse?
Outage raised concerns about the resilience of infrastructure in Europe and implications for moves away from fossil fuels ...