Electricity was restored to most of Spain and Portugal as of Tuesday, with continued disruptions on the second day after an unknown failure caused a massive blackout across much of western Europe. Portugal and Spain remained under a state of emergency as power slowly became restored late Monday evening after the outage hit parts of France,

Electricity was back in most of the two countries almost 18 hours after a blackout that shut down much of daily life. The cause of the outage remained unclear.