What We Know In regards to the Energy Outage in Spain and Portugal

A widespread energy outage upended life for thousands and thousands throughout Spain and Portugal — and, briefly, components of France — on Monday.

Visitors lights went darkish. Trains stopped. Companies closed. And lengthy traces fashioned at A.T.M.s and grocery shops, the place bank card readers stopped working.

By Tuesday morning, the outage was largely over, however the trigger was nonetheless underneath investigation.

Energy has largely been restored to the area

Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez of Spain stated that his nation had recovered greater than 95 p.c of the whole provide by 6.30 a.m. on Tuesday. In Portugal, the electrical energy and gasoline provider REN stated that energy had been restored to each substation within the nation’s grid and that every part was “100% operational.”

{The electrical} grid operator in France, the place the outage briefly affected households within the Basque area, stated all energy had been restored.

The trigger stays underneath investigation

Eduardo Prieto, director of companies for Spain’s nationwide energy firm, Pink Eléctrica, stated that there have been no “definitive conclusions” concerning the causes for the outage, though he and different officers dominated out a cyberattack.