How Spain powered back to life from unprecedented national blackout
Summary
Spain and Portugal recently experienced a massive power failure that took nearly 23 hours to resolve. Normal operations have now resumed, but the event has sparked questions about how to prevent similar incidents in the future.Key Facts
- Spain and Portugal recently had a significant power outage.
- The electricity was out for almost 23 hours before full service was restored.
- The cause of the outage appears to be due to two connection issues in the southwest of Spain and a disconnection from France's electricity network.
- During the outage, 60% of Spain's power generation stopped working.
- Only a few places, including the Canary Islands, the Balearics, and Ceuta and Melilla on North African coast were unaffected.
- Before the blackout, Spain was relying significantly on solar power (60.64%) with smaller contributions from wind (12%) and nuclear (11.6%) sources.
- The process of restoring power involved gradually restarting different parts of the system to avoid triggering another mass outage.
- Power was eventually restored with the help of nearby countries France and Morocco.
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