Power supply restored in most of Spain and Portugal

Lights flickered back to life across most of Spain and Portugal on Tuesday after a massive blackout hit the Iberian peninsula, The Guardian writes.

Electricity had been restored to nearly 90% of mainland Spain by early on Tuesday, the grid operator REE said. Power was restored overnight to around 6.2m households in Portugal out of 6.5m, according to the national electricity grid operator.

Portuguese Prime Minister Luis Montenegro said the source of the outage was “probably in Spain.” Spain’s prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, said that all the potential causes were being analyzed and warned the public not to speculate because of the risk of “misinformation.”

To remind, due to the outages on Monday, some hospitals cancelled surgeries, flights were delayed, and transportation was disrupted in Spain and Portugal.

But no firm cause for the shutdown has yet emerged.