As of 2022, Spain and France shared only 2.8 GW of interconnection capacity, and Spain’s total cross-border capacity with the Central European network was close to 3000 MW, far below the ...

Millions in Spain, Portugal, and parts of France were hit by a massive power outage on Monday. The blackout, which hit most of the Iberian Peninsula, was first reported around lunchtime local time.

The massive power outage that hit both Spain and Portugal was caused by a failure of the interconnection between the power grids of Spain and France, Spanish daily La Vanguardia reported.

Parts of Spain, Portugal and southern France were plunged into darkness on Monday by a massive power outage. The lights are coming back on for some, but the cause of the outage remains unclear.

At 12:33 pm on Monday, a total blackout hit Iberia and bits of southern France and soon became Spain’s worst power outage ever, leaving fifty-five million people in the dark for twelve ...

Millions were plunged into darkness in Europe on Monday as a massive power outage impacted parts of Spain, France and Portugal, but electricity was largely restored by Tuesday morning. The ...

Spain and France’s advanced, renewable-heavy grids are vulnerable to rare but catastrophic failures due to low inertia, limited interconnections, and high societal dependence on electricity.

To Spain now, which, along with Portugal and parts of Southern France, came to a standstill today. An electricity outage halted traffic lights, trains, flights, mobile phone networks, ATMs - you ...