Spain's grid suffered an outage 19 seconds before Monday blackout

REN Redes Energeticas Nacionais SGPS SA

05/05/2025 08:03

MADRID, May 5 (Reuters) - The Spanish electricity grid suffered a first power generation outage 19 seconds before last Monday's blackout in Southern Spain, Energy Minister Sara Aagesen said on Monday.

The grid resisted that first outage but two subsequent ones

moments later in Southwestern Spain brought the grid to a standstill, she said in an interview on state TV channel.

She said Red Electrica REDE.MC is still investigating what happened on Monday when a massive general blackout hit most of Spain and Portugal.

 (Reporting by Inti Landauro and Corina Pons, editing by Andrei Khalip)

 ((Inti.Landauro@thomsonreuters.com;))