Outages on such a scale are extremely rare in Europe. The cause was unclear, with Portugal suggesting the issue originated in ...

The last time a blackout of this scale happened in Europe was in 2006 when some 15 million households were affected. That outage was caused by a frequency drop that originated in Germany and split the ...

Thousands of Irish tourists have breathed a sigh of relief following the recovery of more than 99% of power following an ...

Red Electrica, Spain's power operator, says that as of 06:00 local time (05:00 BST), 99.16% of power has been restored to ...

Officials race to find cause of blackout as electricity returns to homes - More than 90% of power restored in Spain and ...

The UK has been looking at how to deal with “different kinds of challenges and threats”, the Home Secretary said after a ...

Spanish power networks said restoring electricity to the country and Portugal could take up to 10 hours., and by ...

Thousands of UK travellers are trying to return home on Tuesday after being stranded overnight because of widespread power ...

Massive outage disrupts power, transport, and communications across Iberia — raising urgent questions about grid resilience ...

Portuguese power grid supplier Redes Energéticas Nacionais (REN) has claimed faults on the Spanish side of the power grid ...