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02.07 - Spain Today News 29 April 2025
I. Widespread Power Outage and Investigation
A. Incident Description:
On Monday, a significant power outage affected nearly the entire Spanish territory, with the exceptions of the Canary Islands, the Balearic Islands, Ceuta, and Melilla.
The outage occurred around 12:30 PM peninsular time.
The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, stated that the incident involved a "sudden loss" of 15 gigawatts of energy production within five seconds, representing 60% of the electricity being consumed at that moment. This was described as "something that had never happened before."
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