Power Returns to Spain and Portugal After Mystery Blackout

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Power has been restored to almost all of Spain and Portugal after a massive blackout on Monday. Investigations are still ongoing into what caused the outage.

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00:00Cheers in neighbourhoods across Madrid.

00:07As power and light are finally restored, hours after city skylines were plunged into darkness.

00:13Following a massive blackout that cut power to millions of people, from parts of France

00:18to most of Spain and Portugal.

00:21The outage, which started Monday around midday, caused confusion across the Iberian Peninsula,

00:27with hospitals switching to emergency generators and people panic buying at supermarkets.

00:32There was chaos on the roads as traffic systems failed and thousands of travellers were left

00:37stranded as hundreds of flights were delayed or cancelled and public transport ground to

00:42a halt.

00:43My daughter in Barcelona is giving birth.

00:47We're going to miss the connection to get there.

00:50Now we're going to have to sleep here and we don't even have anything to eat.

00:55A state of emergency was declared across the region.

00:58But Spain's Prime Minister was quick to assure his people that cross-sector investigations

01:03were underway to identify the cause of the blackout.

01:06The relevant state institutions and all private operators are working together to understand

01:13what has happened.

01:15All potential causes are being analysed.

01:17I insist again, without ruling out any hypothesis, any possibility.

01:22Amid speculation, both Portugal's Prime Minister and the European Council President said there

01:28were no signs of a cyber attack.

01:30European power companies noted an incident with an interconnector between France and Spain

01:35as being behind the outage, but that there were likely other, yet to be identified,

01:40factors involved.

01:42Despite the lack of clarity, by Tuesday morning, life was already getting back to normal, as

01:47power was restored to the region.

01:52a proper discussion, will also be able to fix a number of people across the region

01:54in the region.

01:55That's where people are also getting back in the region, as the community are working together.

01:57But I think there are people from the region that may have been well involved, which

02:00are finally entering into our country, and there are people from the region that we're

02:01looking for in the region of the region.

02:02It's probably about 50 years old to the region that I've been making, but I've been

02:04so far apart from the region.

02:05I think there is a lot of people that may not be thought of.

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