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malaise

(284,068 posts) Mon Apr 28, 2025, 09:04 AM Apr 28

Huge power outages in Spain, and Portugal [View all]

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Spain and Portugal hit by massive power outage causing blackouts

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/28/spain-portugal-power-outage

Spain and Portugal have been hit by a massive power outage that has caused blackouts, Spain’s electricity network operator has said.

The Spanish grid operator Red Eléctrica said it had activated plans to restore the supply, with “all resources dedicated to solving” the disruption.

It said the Iberian peninsula, with a combined population of more than 50 million people, had been affected.

Spain’s public broadcaster RTVE said the outage had hit several regions of the country at about 12.30pm local time, leaving its newsroom, Spain’s parliament in Madrid and metro stations across the country in the dark.

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Huge power outages in Spain, and Portugal [View all] malaise Apr 28 OP

Interesting, but no specifics as to why? harumph Apr 28 #1

It only happened about 3 hours ago Nittersing Apr 28 #2

Message auto-removed Name removed Apr 28 #6

Freaking wow! malaise Apr 28 #10

Just spoke with a friend in Belgium malaise Apr 28 #11

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I'd imagine some (all?) phone masts have back-up generators, or UPSs muriel_volestrangler Apr 28 #13

You are correct malaise Apr 28 #15

Some good news malaise Apr 28 #14

The bad news -Spanish distributor says restoring power after huge outage could take 6-10 hours. Portugal also hit malaise Apr 28 #5

More here malaise Apr 28 #9

"I am locked out of my apartment as the building has electronic key" muriel_volestrangler Apr 28 #3

Damn! malaise Apr 28 #4

The Day Iberia Stood Still Kid Berwyn Apr 28 #7

Indeed malaise Apr 28 #8

K&R CountAllVotes Apr 28 #16

What caused it malaise Apr 28 #20

Radio Nacional Espaa has good... róisín_dubh Apr 28 #17

DU won't let me put the tilde in the title róisín_dubh Apr 28 #18

Thank you so much malaise Apr 28 #19

This was really pervasive DFW Apr 28 #21

Good report here malaise Apr 28 #22

What caused it? "Induced atmospheric vibration", some say. muriel_volestrangler Apr 28 #23

Restoration ongoing malaise Apr 28 #24

I'd normally hope to understand an explanation (with an engineering degree, even if I went into software) muriel_volestrangler Apr 28 #25

Seems odd malaise Apr 28 #26

Looks like you're right - they don't know why the happened malaise Apr 29 #28

Last week, zero-cost electricity. Igel Apr 28 #27