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Widespread power cuts brought Spain and Portugal to a standstill on Monday.

Authorities are still working to find out what caused one of Europe’s worst blackouts.

For Spain and Portugal, 28 April 2025 will go down in history as the day of “el gran apagón”, the big blackout. The outage, which affected the two countries simultaneously, was one of the 15 largest power cuts in world history in terms of the number of people affected, with…

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Investigations are ongoing into what went wrong with the electricity system, which impacted some 60 million people.

On 28 April 2025, an unprecedented collapse of the Iberian Peninsula’s electricity grid brought Spain and Portugal to a standstill. The likelihood of this ever happening was extremely low and – speculation about its causes aside – the episode has caused serious social disruption, as well as economic losses at…