Our map shows some of the areas affected. Almost 100% of power has been restored across Spain, but areas in Portugal are still reeling from the outages.

Electricity is pulsing through Spain and Portugal again after a massive outage knocked out power in both countries on Monday. So too are questions. It remains unclear what caused the sudden and ...

What we know about the Spain, Portugal power outages 01:47. Spain's government has set up a special commission to figure out what caused the massive power outage that hit virtually the entire ...

While Spain received support from France and Morocco, Portugal had no country to turn to for emergency supplies of electricity. Confusion grips major cities Monday’s blackout hit a huge and busy ...

MADRID — The cause of Spain and Portugal’s widespread blackouts remained a mystery on Tuesday, with some isolated disruption remaining after power was largely restored to both countries. One ...

A woman is seen holding a candle for light as Spain, Portugal, and other parts of Europe are hit with widespread power blackouts which lasted 10 hours in Lisbon, Portugal on April 28, 2025. A ...

Luis Ibáñez Jiménez was driving on a highway in east Madrid when Spain lost power. “Suddenly, there were no traffic lights,” the resident of the capital told CNN. Cars piled up, and nobody ...

In cities across Spain and Portugal, life was returning in spurts on Tuesday. While subways were back up in Madrid and Lisbon, Spain’s national railway system reported that many of its commuter ...

Even as electricity was restored across Spain and Portugal after a daylong blackout, residents tried to make sense of 18 hours of the “insanity.” By Jonathan Wolfe and José Bautista Jonathan ...