Spanish prime minister Pedro Sánchez said a nationwide blackout of this scale had never happened before in Spain. He added that the underlying cause remains unclear.

Lights flickered back to life in Spain and Portugal on Tuesday after a massive blackout hit the Iberian peninsula stranding passengers in trains and

A massive power outage appears to have affected large portions of Spain and Portugal Monday. Red Electrica, the operator of Spain's power grid, said on social media Monday morning that voltage has been recovered in substations in several areas in the north,