Power has been restored to more than 99% of mainland Spain, operator REE said on Tuesday, April 29th, a day after a massive blackout hit the Iberian Peninsula.
Lights flickered back to life in Spain and Portugal on Tuesday after the massive blackout stranding passengers in trains and hundreds of elevators while millions saw phone and internet coverage die.
Barely a corner of the peninsula, which has a joint population of almost 60 million people, escaped the blackout. But no firm cause for the shutdown has yet emerged, though wild rumours spread on messaging networks about cyber attacks.
Portuguese Prime Minister Luis Montenegro said the source of the outage was “probably in Spain.” Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said “all the potential causes” were being analysed and warned the public “not to speculate” because of the risk of “misinformation.”
The outage rippled briefly into southwest France while Morocco saw disruption to some internet providers and airport check-in systems.
