In tightly coupled, highly complex systems such as the European energy grid, the next catastrophe is not caused. It is ...

Whatever the root cause, one thing’s crystal clear: major blackouts don’t just switch off the lights; they send shockwaves ...

The countries’ top officials were trying to determine the cause of an outage that left tens of millions of people across the ...

Portugal is supplying electricity to clients from its own sources as power exchanges with Spain remain suspended amid an ...

Spain and Portugal switched their power back on after the worst blackout in their history, though authorities offered little ...

Electricity is pulsing through Spain and Portugal again after a massive outage knocked out power in both countries on Monday.

A blackout brought much of Spain and Portugal to a standstill Monday, stopping trains, cutting phone service and shutting ...

Play was halted at the Madrid Open tennis tournament, while the Spanish capital's metro system ground to a stop.

One of Europe’s most severe blackouts grounded flights, paralyzed metro systems, disrupted mobile communications and shut down ATMs across the Iberian Peninsula.

At 12.33pm on Monday 28 April, most of Spain and Portugal were plunged into chaos by a blackout. While the initial trigger remains uncertain, the nationwide blackouts took place after around 15 ...

In Portugal, wholesale electricity prices soared nearly 5X higher than those in Spain after Portugal stopped imports from its ...