Sanchez Is Looking for a Culprit for Biggest Blackout in Spain

Bloomberg.com · last updated May 4, 2025 – 1:25 AM

In the end, the lights came back after half a day but the answers didn’t for what caused one of Europe’s worst outages in living memory.

Six days have been and gone since 55 million people in Spain and Portugal found themselves suddenly without power and unable to use their mobile phones. In all this time, a full explanation has yet to be provided. The public — along with investors and keen energy watchers — are simply being told that everything is possible, nothing has been excluded.

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