Overview
- An 11,000 MW drop in electricity supply caused a massive blackout across Spain, Portugal, and parts of southern France, paralyzing key infrastructure.
- Transportation systems, including metros, railways, and airports, were disrupted, while traffic signals went offline, creating chaos on roads.
- Red Eléctrica de España (REE) and REN activated emergency restoration plans, with France's RTE supplying 700 MW to assist and prepared to increase support to 950 MW.
- Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez convened an emergency National Security Council meeting, while cybersecurity agency INCIBE investigates the possibility of a cyberattack.
- Partial power restoration efforts are ongoing, but the root cause of the outage remains undetermined, prompting EU-level coordination and scrutiny of energy system vulnerabilities.