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 explanation for what had caused it or how they would prevent it from happening again.
Traffic lights were back on, train and metro services slowly returned and schools reopened. Commuters battled with delays to get back to work after an outage that had left people stranded in lifts and cut off from phone contact with their families.
The sudden outage had seen the equivalent of 60% of demand in Spain drop in five seconds around midday on Monday...
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