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After Spain and Portugal/ Residents in France and Andorra remain without electricity

2025-04-28 17:50:00, Kosova & Bota CNA

After Spain and Portugal/ Residents in France and Andorra remain without

Residents of Andorra and parts of France bordering Spain reported today that they were affected by power outages. According to the latest information, further outages have been reported as far as Belgium.

Some areas suffered a partial outage, said sources from the manager of national network RTE, quoted by Spanish news agency Efe.

The sources added that RTE is exploring ways to relocate electricity to help reconnect Spain. 

By Monday afternoon, Red Eléctrica said it had begun gradually restoring electricity to both the north and south of Spain. However, the process of getting everyone back online could take between six and ten hours due to technical reasons, it added.

According to Red Eléctrica, electricity consumption across Spain fell by 50% at around 12:30pm on Monday, showing the widespread scale of what the company called a "totally extraordinary outage".

The cause is still unclear. Spain's two main electricity companies, Endesa and Iberdrola, are investigating the incident.

Local media are reporting problems with the European electricity grid, which affected national networks in the Iberian Peninsula.

A fire in southwestern France, on Mount Alaric, which damaged a high-voltage power line between Perpignan and eastern Narbonne, has also been identified as a possible cause, Portugal's national electricity company REN said.

"Such a widespread grid failure is extremely unusual and could be caused by a number of things: there could be a physical fault in the grid that is causing the power outage, a coordinated cyber attack could be behind it, or a dramatic imbalance between demand and supply has pushed the grid system to the brink of collapse," said Taco Engelaar, managing director at energy infrastructure experts Neara. /CNA

 





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