The country’s top officials are trying to figure out the cause of a power outage that stranded tens of millions of people across the Iberian Peninsula.

The massive power outage on the Iberian Peninsula has cost at least three lives. The search for the cause of the outage continues.

On 28 April 2025, an unprecedented collapse of the Iberian Peninsula's electricity grid brought Spain and Portugal to a standstill. The likelihood of this ever happening was extremely low and—speculation about its causes aside—the episode has caused serious social disruption,