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Europe’s ‘wake up call’: What lessons need to be learned from Spain and Portugal’s power outage?
The IEA says the world must add or replace 80 million km of grids by 2040 to meet national climate targets and support energy ...
Power returns in Spain and Portugal, but what made it go out to begin with?
Officials dismissed speculation about foul play, saying there was no sign that the outage was from a cyberattack.
Spain and Portugal power cut: how public and official responses have prevented this energy emergency from becoming a crisis
Robust systems, decisive moves by the authorities and responsible reactions from the public were all responsible for averting ...
France 24 on MSN37m
Spain-Portugal outage: How can an electricity network go down in five seconds? Explained
General power outages in Spain and Portugal highlight grid vulnerabilities due to various causes like solar and wind power ...
Inside Ed Miliband’s friendship with Spain’s net zero architect
The Spanish environment minister whose headlong rush towards net zero may have laid the ground for Monday’s catastrophic ...
EU told citizens to stockpile in case of disaster less than a month before huge outages in Spain
The widespread outage left thousands of people stranded in trains and elevators yesterday, while millions saw phone and ...
After the blackout in Spain and Portugal, is Germany prepared for such an emergency?
A massive power cut paralysed everyday life in Spain and Portugal for most of Monday. During the blackout, millions were ...
Not a cyber attack, but crooked hands: who turned off the lights on the Iberian Peninsula
A complete power outage in Spain, Portugal and France could have been caused by the negligence of local power engineers who ...
Spain and Portugal rule out cyber-attack as cause of power cut, as travel chaos continues
Power has now been fully restored in Spain and Portugal, as officials continue to investigate what caused the outage.
The Cool Down on MSN54m
Farmers raise concerns about higher food prices after crops are destroyed: 'The situation looks completely different'
While projections for the region's potato crops were encouraging for some at the start of the year, heavy rains and flooded ...