Portuguese authorities have announced measures to strengthen the country's electricity system after the April 28 blackout ...

Spanish investigators on Tuesday released a report showing that a power surge caused an hours-long blackout on the Iberian peninsula in late April. The power surge triggered a chain reaction of ...

In the Iberian Peninsula, it currently stands below 3%, a "systemic vulnerability" for the entire European electrical system, according to the top officials of the energy policy of Spain and Portugal.

People searched for battery-powered radios. It is rare to have such a widespread outage across the Iberian Peninsula, with a combined population of about 60 million people.

People searched for battery-powered radios. It is rare to have such a widespread outage across the Iberian Peninsula, with a combined population of about 60 million people.

Spain lost 15 gigawatts of electricity — or about 60% of its supply. Portugal, whose grid is connected to Spain's, also went down. Only the countries' island territories were spared.

MADRID (Reuters) -Spain's power grid operator REE miscalculated its power capacity needs on the day that a surge in voltage caused a massive blackout across the Iberian peninsula in April, a ...