Major power outage in southern Europe

Major power outage in southern Europe

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mikey_b

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2,325 posts

60 months

Monday 28th April
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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?

Terminator X

17,705 posts

219 months

Monday 28th April
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In other news National Grid confirm that they will have no trouble at all supplying all our power off into the future ...

TX.

snotrag

15,180 posts

226 months

Monday 28th April
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"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

16,021 posts

141 months

Monday 28th April
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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

14,530 posts

299 months

Monday 28th April
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Seems a bit of an extreme way to shut Carl_VivaEspana TFU.

Edited: Not extreme enough it appears.

Carl_VivaEspana

14,551 posts

277 months

Monday 28th April
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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

14,551 posts

277 months

Monday 28th April
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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

13,369 posts

224 months

Monday 28th April
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JD Vance hasn't been visiting any Spanish power stations has he?

FourWheelDrift

90,934 posts

299 months

Monday 28th April
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Russia.

Who_Goes_Blue

1,293 posts

186 months

Monday 28th April
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Aliens

eldar

23,845 posts

211 months

Monday 28th April
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Cock up.

Earthdweller

16,021 posts

141 months

Monday 28th April
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Ed Milliband

vaud

55,079 posts

170 months

Monday 28th April
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There is a web site for everything…

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

All of Iberia showing as offline…


Vanden Saab

16,114 posts

89 months

Monday 28th April
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Why don't they just turn it off and on again.

lost in espace

6,381 posts

222 months

Monday 28th April
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Finland too.

vaud

55,079 posts

170 months

Monday 28th April
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Vanden Saab said:
Why don't they just turn it off and on again.
It's not a laptop. wink

Gary C

13,770 posts

194 months

Monday 28th April
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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

90,934 posts

299 months

Monday 28th April
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To many EVs plugged in to charge.

vaud

55,079 posts

170 months

Monday 28th April
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Cascade effect at a guess, similar to what happened in the UK (east coast)