Major power outage in southern Europe

[mikey_b]

Seems to be some sort of massive power outage across southern Europe currently. Our Barcelona office is without power, mobile networks are starting to fail as is most other infrastructure. Not much on the main news websites yet although I did get a 'breaking news' from Sky just now, and there are very short stories on some Spanish sites, all published in the last few minutes.

Anyone affected, or stuck in the middle of it?

[vaud]

https://metro.co.uk/2025/04/28/spain-portugal-hit-...

[Terminator X]

In other news National Grid confirm that they will have no trouble at all supplying all our power off into the future ...

TX.

[snotrag]

"Spain's national railway company, Renfe, says the country's "entire National Electricity Grid was cut off" at 12:30 local time (11:30 BST)."


Wow, thats big.

Feels a lot more like software/cyber/hacking than hardware failure?

[Earthdweller]

Lots of omg apocalypse stuff on Twitter but nothing concrete or seemingly verifiable

Some saying whole of Spain, Portugal and parts of France

Grok says it's not true

Who knows ?

[eharding]

Seems a bit of an extreme way to shut Carl_VivaEspana TFU.

Edited: Not extreme enough it appears.

[Carl_VivaEspana]

Yes, there was a big power outage.

https://elpais.com/economia/2025-04-28/apagon-elec...

Around a 50% total drop. I am unaffected but, I would expect as the power comes back online in all areas the picture will be clearer about who was effected and for how long.

[Carl_VivaEspana]

eharding said:

Seems a bit of an extreme way to shut Carl_VivaEspana TFU.

Oil fired power plant and multiple areas of local redundancy FTW.

[KaraK]

JD Vance hasn't been visiting any Spanish power stations has he?

[FourWheelDrift]

Russia.

[anonymous-user]

Aliens

[eldar]

Cock up.

[Earthdweller]

Ed Milliband

[vaud]

There is a web site for everything…

https://gridradar.net/de/wide-area-monitoring-syst...

All of Iberia showing as offline…

[Vanden Saab]

Why don't they just turn it off and on again.

[lost in espace]

Finland too.

[vaud]

Vanden Saab said:

Why don't they just turn it off and on again.

It's not a laptop.

[Gary C]

snotrag said:

"Spain's national railway company, Renfe, says the country's "entire National Electricity Grid was cut off" at 12:30 local time (11:30 BST)."


Wow, thats big.

Feels a lot more like software/cyber/hacking than hardware failure?

It just might be

but there is the possibility of a cascade trip, where a trip transfers load to another line which then trips and so on though systems should be resilient to that these days.

[FourWheelDrift]

To many EVs plugged in to charge.

[vaud]

Cascade effect at a guess, similar to what happened in the UK (east coast)