Large parts of Spain and Portugal without power

A monolithic powerfulness outage deed Spain and Portugal connected Monday, knocking retired postulation lights, ATMs and telephone lines and forcing the evacuation of subway systems successful some countries, reports said. 

A graph connected Spain’s energy web website showing request crossed the state indicated a steep driblet astir 12:15 p.m. section clip from 27,500 megawatts to adjacent 15,000, according to the Associated Press. 

"It looks similar it was a occupation with the organisation network, seemingly successful Spain. It’s inactive being ascertained," Portugal Cabinet Minister Leitão Amaro told nationalist quality bureau Lusa. 

The nonstop origin of the outage remains unclear. The Portuguese National Cybersecurity Center issued a connection saying determination was nary motion the outage was owed to a cyberattack. 

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Spectators roam wrong the Madrid Open tennis tourney venue during a blackout successful Madrid, connected Monday, April 28. (AP/Manu Fernandez)

Video that aired connected Spanish tv showed radical evacuating metro stations successful Madrid and bare stations with trains stopped successful Barcelona. Spain’s parliament besides was near successful the dark, nationalist broadcaster RTVE reported. 

The ATP Tour said play astatine the Madrid Open tennis tourney was suspended owed to the powerfulness outage. 

In Portugal, respective Lisbon subway cars were evacuated, courts stopped enactment and ATMs and physics outgo systems were affected. Traffic lights successful Lisbon besides stopped working. 

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People effort to committee a crowded autobus aft the subway stopped moving successful Lisbon, Portugal, connected Monday, April 28, 2025.  (AP/Armando Franca)

Both the Portuguese and Spanish governments convened exigency furniture meetings to code the situation, according to Reuters. 

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez besides visited grid relation Red Eléctrica to travel efforts astatine restoring power. 

A navigator from a take-out nutrient edifice works successful a acheronian room with the assistance of a phone's flashlight during a powerfulness outage successful Madrid connected Monday. (Reuters/Susana Vera)

Eduardo Prieto, caput of operations astatine Red Eléctrica, told journalists it was unprecedented, calling the lawsuit "exceptional and extraordinary."

"We're opening to retrieve powerfulness successful the northbound and southbound of the peninsula, which is cardinal to gradually gathering the energy supply," Red Eléctrica wrote connected X. "This process involves the gradual energization of the transmission grid arsenic the generating units are connected." 

A presumption shows a acheronian metro presumption successful Lisbon, Portugal, during a wide powerfulness outage that struck Spain and Portugal astir midday Monday. (Adri Salido/Anadolu via Getty Images)

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"The causes are being analyzed, and each resources are being dedicated to addressing the issue," it added. 

The Associated Press contributed to this report.