Power outage affects Spain and Portugal

A significant power outage has affected parts of Spain and Portugal, prompting swift action from authorities in both countries.

Spain’s Ministry for the Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge reported that Vice President Sara Aagesen had traveled to the Red Eléctrica control center to assess the situation.

Red Eléctrica de España, the national electricity grid operator, has confirmed that efforts are underway to restore power, beginning with the north and south of the Iberian Peninsula.

According to the company, this process involves the gradual energization of the transmission grid as generating units are reconnected.

Earlier, Red Eléctrica stated that they were working alongside other sector companies to address the power failure, analyzing the causes and dedicating resources to resolve the issue.

The Spanish ministry assured that all necessary measures would be taken to restore normalcy as quickly as possible.

In Madrid, the municipal government activated its emergency plans, moving to operational phase 1 and later escalating to operational level 2. The city’s Emergency Information Office advised against unnecessary travel, and certain tunnels, including the Calle 30 Madrid tunnels, were closed to general traffic, remaining accessible only to emergency services.

While Spain grapples with the outage, power authorities in Portugal are also working on recovery, although the websites for both the Ministry of the Environment and Energy Transition and the Secretary of State for Energy are temporarily unavailable.

Authorities in both nations continue to prioritize the restoration of services, with updates expected as efforts progress.

A translation of the last X post by Red Eléctrica reads, “At this time, voltage has been recovered in substations in several areas of the north, south and west of the peninsula. We continue to work with all resources to achieve the restoration of supply as soon as possible throughout the entire territory. The main objective of the works in this phase of the replacement is to provide voltage to the generation groups.”

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