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Spain Looks for Answers on What Caused Widespread Blackout
The country’s top officials were trying to determine the cause of an outage that left tens of millions of people across the ...
Sanchez pressed to explain Spain's blackout; grid says solar not to blame
Spain's grid operator denied on Wednesday that dependence on solar power was to blame for the country's worst ever blackout, ...
Power outages across Spain and Portugal affected millions. How to prepare for a major blackout
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — An unprecedented blackout across Spain and Portugal upended the lives of millions across the Iberian ...
Spain’s PM accused of putting net-zero ideology first after blackout chaos
Spain’s Socialist prime minister was accused of putting green ideology ahead of energy security after a massive blackout ...
Stuck in a Dentist’s Chair, and Other Blackout Tales From Spain and Portugal
Even as electricity was restored across Spain and Portugal after a daylong blackout, residents tried to make sense of 18 ...
Spain, Portugal switch back on, seek answers after biggest ever blackout
Spain and Portugal switched their power back on after the worst blackout in their history, though authorities offered little ...
Spain’s Prime Minister Summoned Utilities to Discuss Blackout
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez held a meeting Tuesday evening with executives from the country’s main utilities to ...
Spain Blackout Is First of Clean-Energy Era
Solar energy was powering the grid in Spain and Portugal on Monday—until it wasn’t, leaving tens of millions without ...
UK Hit by Unexplained Power Failures Hours Before Spain, Portugal Blackout
The outages occurred just hours before the Iberian Peninsula was hit by power cuts that crippled the countries' ...
Spain vows to solve massive blackout mystery, prevent it from happening again
Spain's government has set up a special commission to figure out what caused the massive power outage that hit virtually the ...