Blackout in Spain and Portugal: why did the lights go out?
On Monday, the unthinkable happened: Spain and Portugal experienced an electricity blackout.
Just after midday the lights went out, wifi went down, trains stopped, airports closed, ATMs froze and everyday life for millions of citizens ground to a halt.
Both countries quickly ruled out the possibility that the outage was caused by a cyberattack. Human error was also discounted. Critics of Spain’s ambitious green energy policy were quick to lay the blame on renewables.
Nuclear power proponents suggested the outage was the inevitable result of moving away from nuclear.
Power started to be…
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