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For Spain and Portugal, 28 April 2025 will go down in history as the day of “el gran apagón”, the big blackout. The outage, which affected the two countries simultaneously, was one of the 15 largest power cuts in world history in terms of the number of people affected, with…

Spain is one of Europe's biggest producers of solar and wind power

The countries boast high levels of wind and solar on their grids, leading to speculation about the robustness of the technology

Net zero is vital for safeguarding the planet, but renewable energy sources could leave people vulnerable to blackouts in emergency situations

Investigations are ongoing into what went wrong with the electricity system, which impacted some 60 million people.

With the lights now coming back on in the Iberian Peninsula, Euroverify fact-checks some of the false claims that circulated during Monday's unprecedented blackout.

On 28 April 2025, an unprecedented collapse of the Iberian Peninsula’s electricity grid brought Spain and Portugal to a standstill. The likelihood of this ever happening was extremely low and – speculation about its causes aside – the episode has caused serious social disruption, as well as economic losses at…

A widespread blackout across Spain and Portugal upended the lives of millions of people across the Iberian Peninsula

I recently had the pleasure of riding Triumph's 2025 Speed Twin 1200 and Speed Twin 1200 RS in Majorca, Spain. I was hot off the launch of Yamaha's MT-09 SP and trying to wrap my head around why anyone would buy the standard model, unless, of course, they were completely…