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By Sara Ruberg and Michael Levenson After a nearly daylong power outage upended life for millions across Spain and Portugal, the authorities in both countries are still searching for the cause of ...
Emergency declarations: While the supply of electricity is gradually returning to parts of Spain and Portugal, the two governments declared states of emergency tonight after a massive outage.
Millions were left powerless in Spain, Portugal and France on April 28 after what officials called an "induced atmospheric vibration," or a rare phenomenon where weather changes affect power lines.
Lights flickered back to life in Spain and Portugal early Tuesday after a massive blackout hit the Iberian peninsula stranding passengers in trains and hundreds of elevators while millions saw ...
The massive power outage that hit both Spain and Portugal was caused by a failure of the interconnection between the power grids of Spain and France, Spanish daily La Vanguardia reported.
THE lights are on and the bars are open as Spain and Portugal celebrate the return of electricity following a mass blackout. Electricity had been restored to nearly 90% of mainland Spain by ...
Spain suffered a catastrophic outage in its electricity grid on that day, which also left Portugal, which was importing cheaper renewable energy from its neighbour, without power. The causes of ...
A massive, unprecedented power outage hit large parts of Spain as well as Portugal on Monday. The blackout halted subway and railway trains, cut phone service and shut down traffic lights and ATMs ...
The blackout hit critical infrastructure like airports and caused transportation disruptions across the two countries. The cause of the outage was unclear. By Jonathan Wolfe Amelia Nierenberg Azam ...
Power has been restored to tens of millions of people across almost all of Spain and Portugal, but disruptions to transport services were expected to stretch into a second day as questions mount ...