Electricity was cut off across Spain and Portugal and part of southern France on Monday, April 28th, in a massive blackout that affected millions of people, grid operators said.
The cause for the outage was not immediately identified.
The blackout stopped trains across all of Spain. The situation is similar in Portugal, where traffic lights across the country are not functioning. The metro is also closed in the capital city, Lisbon, as well as in Porto, and trains are not running.
Spain’s state electricity network operator Red Electrica said on X it had managed to restore power in the north and south of the country. Portugal’s REN operator said all the Iberian Peninsula was affected, as well as part of France.
