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If you find yourself in a power outage during an extreme weather event, there’s many things you can do to prepare.
Iberia's blackout in April showed that European grids must modernise to cope with more renewable power generation, and Portugal wants the EU to help finance these investments, its energy minister told ...
MADRID (AP) — The cause of Spain and Portugal's widespread blackouts remained a mystery on Tuesday, with some isolated disruption remaining after power was largely restored. One of Europe’s ...
Spain suffered a catastrophic outage in its electricity grid on that day, which also left Portugal, which was importing cheaper renewable energy from its neighbour, without power. The causes of ...
LISBON, Portugal — Portugal’s president convened the country’s political parties for consultations Monday, after a general election delivered another minority government as well as an ...
If you’re visiting Portugal for the first time and landing in Lisbon, the country’s capital city, choosing the right hotel is key for starting things off on the right foot.
Portugal will continue to ease limits on the electricity interconnection capacity ... Stranded travelers at Lisbon Airport during a power outage in Lisbon, Portugal, on April 28. Photographer: Zed ...
Footage shows transport chaos in Lisbon after a huge power cut hit parts of Portugal and Spain on Monday (28 April). Traffic came to a standstill in the capital, sparking travel chaos on the road ...
LISBON — A minority center-right government formally took power in Portugal on Wednesday after parliament threw out a motion by the small opposition Communist Party calling for rejection of the ...
At 12:33 p.m. local time on a crystal blue Monday, the system that provides the power essential to the daily lives of 50 million-plus people collapsed. The lights went out from Lisbon to Barcelona ...
Spanish authorities say the massive power outage in April across Spain and Portugal was due to technical and planning errors that led to a cascade of failures in the grid.
The number of tourists in Porto has yet to reach the same soaring levels as Lisbon, but it is growing significantly. According to the National Statistics Institute, the region saw 7 million ...