• hellequin67@lemm.eeEnglish
    293·
    10 hours ago

    Spanish news media reporting 6 ton10 hours to fully restore power to all regions.

    Also still investigating the cause but suspicion falling on a cyber attack.

    • torrentialgrain@lemm.eeEnglish
      6·
      10 hours ago

      I haven’t seen a single source citing suspicions of a cyber attack. They’re not ruling it out, but that’s because nothing is (publicly) known.

      • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
        15·
        9 hours ago

        CNN, five minutes ago as of this writing:

        https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/power-outages-blackout-spain-portugal-04-28-25/index.html

        Some outlets are reporting a fire in the southwest of France is to blame, but French electricity providers have denied the claim. Portugal’s National Cybersecurity Center also said there was no evidence of a cyberattack being behind the power outages, state news agency LUSA reported.

        While the exact cause remains unclear, governments have convened emergency meetings and electricity providers are working to restore power as soon as possible.

        I do see other news articles on other sites speculating as to cause, including some about hacking, but that doesn’t seem to be beyond guesswork. I’d think that if there were any firm information out, that CNN would have it.

        • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
          3·
          9 hours ago

          I’d also note that Spain and Portugal have very limited interconnection to the rest of Europe — this is known as the “Iberian energy island” — and addressing this has been the topic of some past European news coverage that I’ve read.

          There are only three, limited-capacity electricity transmission links between them and France. In the past, they have been completely cut off from the rest of Europe’s electricity grid when all three links were down for unrelated reasons at the same time.

          I’d guess that this is probably a relatively weak point in terms of reliability in Europe’s electricity grid.

          Back in 1965, in the US, we had the Northeast go dark for a while after a failure on one transmission line into the region shut down, caused electricity to be shunted onto others, triggering them to also shut down; a series of cascading protection systems triggered to bring the system to a “safe” state and avoid damage and ultimately brought power transmission into the region and then other systems down.

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_blackout_of_1965

            • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
              1·
              6 hours ago

              The 1965 failure resulted from the transmission capacity into the region being near exhausted, and then a failure on one transmission line triggering a series of other problems that blacked out the region. I’m just trying to give an example of where a failure of the sort that one might expect to potentially happen in Iberia – having little spare transmission capacity, and then hitting some sort of problem that increases stress – might result in internal blackouts in the region.

          • peoplebeproblems@midwest.socialEnglish
            3·
            8 hours ago

            Squirrels man. I’m better it’s because of squirrels.

            They’re coordinating. One looked me in the eye from a tree yesterday, turned around and started racing down the tree and right ar me. spooked the shit out of me.