A significant power outage has affected Spain, Portugal, and parts of France, disrupting services in major cities like Madrid and Lisbon. Portugal's grid operator attributed the outage to 'extreme temperature variations,' while Spain's Prime Minister stated that the cause remains uncertain. Power restoration may take up to a week, although some areas may see power restored in ten hours. Anomalous oscillations within the grid led to voltage fluctuations, causing synchronisation failures in the electrical systems, impacting the entire European network and resulting in cancelled events and disabled airports.
Due to extreme temperature variations, the Iberian Peninsula’s power grid experienced anomalous oscillations, leading to voltage fluctuations that caused synchronisation failures and a widespread blackout.
Spain's Prime Minister highlighted that there is no conclusive information regarding the cause of the blackout, despite a grid operator attributing it to temperature changes.
Professor Chenghong Gu explained that the ‘synchronisation failures’ in the electrical systems triggered disturbances across the interconnected European grid, affecting multiple regions.
Restoration estimates of power vary significantly; grid operators warn it might take up to a week, while some sources suggest that power could be restored within ten hours.
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