First victims of Iberian blackout confirmed in Spain as fallout rumbles on

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez is currently meeting with companies in charge of generating electricity for the country, according to El País newspaper.

The meeting comes just hours after Sánchez publicly said his executive would "demand all relevant responsibilities from private operators," a statement that fuelled speculation about a blame game between the government and the private sector.

This week’s widespread power outage in Spain and Portugal has sparked a broader question across Europe: How well prepared are other countries for a similar emergency?

Large-scale blackouts that paralyse both infrastructure and telephone systems are rare, but not unprecedented. Just last summer, several Balkan countries experienced extended outages during a heatwave.

As EU countries start reflecting on the Iberian crisis, Euronews' Franziska Müller is exploring if Germany's system is resilient enough to withstand a comparable shock.

Power outage in Spain and Portugal: How well prepared is Germany?

A widespread power outage in Spain and Portugal paralysed the countries’ infrastructure for several hours. How well prepared is Germany to handle a similar……

Pedro Sánchez, the Spanish prime minister, is currently hosting a new meeting of the National Security Council, the second of this kind today. Ealier on Tuesday, the National Security Council was presided by King Felipe.

Sánchez has said "the worst part of the crisis" is now over as more than 99% of the electricity demand has been restored. However, there are some areas in the country that still lack power and train services are not yet fully operational. Additionally, the government is processing information about the mounting costs caused by the general blackout on Monday, which forced stores to throw away perishable goods and factories to halt production.

Sánchez and his team have not yet named an official cause for the unprecedented outage.

With electricity supplies now largely restored across the Iberian Peninsula, attention is turning to the root cause of Monday’s unprecedented blackout.

Speculation has been swift, with some commentators pointing fingers at the high share of renewables in Spain and Portugal’s energy mix. But is there any truth to the claim?

Euronews Green examines whether renewable energy played a role or is being unfairly scapegoated.

Did wind and solar really make Spain’s power grid more vulnerable?

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

The first casualties linked to Monday’s massive blackout across Spain and Portugal have now been confirmed, with authorities warning that the toll may still rise.

In Madrid’s Carabanchel neighbourhood, a 56-year-old woman died after a fire broke out in her home, reportedly caused by a candle lit during the power outage. Thirteen others were treated for smoke inhalation, and five were transported to the hospital. This marks the first officially confirmed death tied directly to the blackout.

In a separate incident in Taboadela, Galicia, emergency services found three members of the same family (an 81-year-old man, a 77-year-old woman, and their 56-year-old son) dead from suspected carbon monoxide poisoning. They had been using a poorly maintained generator inside their home. However, the Guardia Civil does not rule out other hypotheses that are not directly linked to the absence of electricity in the homes.

The Portuguese government has decided ‘not to prolong or aggravate the declaration of an energy crisis’, which ends at 23:59 this Tuesday.

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has asked Brussels to deliver an "independent report" about yesterday's blackout. So will it?

Yes, but the report will not be written by the European Commission.

First, the incident needs to be classified on a general scale. It is most likely to be deemed a Scale 3 incident, reflecting the severity and the extent of the power outage.

After that, an investigation will begin. It will be led by a transmission system operator (TSO) from a member state with no connection to the incident, so as to assure independence. Operators from Spain, Portugal and France will be allowed to participate in the panel. The European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity (ENTSO-E) will also take part.

The panel will have up to six months to deliver a fact-finding report. At a later stage, it will submit a final report detailing the precise causes of the incident and a series of recommendations to ensure it doesn't happen again. This is when the European Commission will step in.

"Our role will come later, when we see the recommendations and root causes and what needs to be done to implement these recommendations, once the evidence is there," said a Commission official.

Misleading theories flooded social media – and the mainstream media – as Spain, Portugal and parts of France were plunged into darkness on Monday.

Euronews’ fact-checking service, Euroverify, fact-checks some of those claims

No evidence the blackout was caused by a cyber attack

Social media users have pinned responsibility on a cyber attack by Russia, Morocco, North Korea or a terrorist organisation - there is no evidence to support these claims.

On Tuesday, Spain's grid operator Red Eléctrica dismissed the possibility of a cyber attack, a human error or a meteorological phenomenon signalling that the outage was caused by a sudden disconnection between two electricity generation plants in the south-west of the Iberian Peninsula. A Portuguese government spokesperson has also firmly ruled out a cyber attack.

Ursula von der Leyen has not accused Russia

Claims that European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen had accused Russia of a "cyber attack" spread rapidly on Monday, attributed to CNN. They have been firmly denied by the European Commission's chief spokesperson, Paula Pinho, who said the episode has shown "how far manipulation of information can go."

Portuguese grid operator denies blaming 'rare atmospheric phenomenon'

Several media outlets – including Reuters, CNN and the Guardian – reported on Monday that Portugal's grid operator, Redes Energéticas Nacionais (REN), had said in a statement that a "rare atmospheric phenomenon," namely extreme temperature variations in Spain's interior, was to blame for the massive outage.

The reports have since been rectified, with a REN spokesperson saying on Tuesday that the company had "never put out this statement."

More from Euroverify in the article.

Iberian ‘blackout’ sparks spread of false theories online

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……

European Commissioner for energy and housing Dan Jørgensen said on social media X, formerly known as Twitter, that the energy situation in Spain and Portugal is back to normal.

Portuguese Prime Minister Luís Montenegro has confirmed that the country’s energy system is now “working with national production,” following Monday’s massive blackout that disrupted power across the Iberian Peninsula.

"We managed to restart the energy production system and we now have the system working autonomously," the prime minister said, firmly ruling out any issues with national generation capacity.

To ensure transparency, the Portuguese government will request an independent audit by the EU’s energy regulator cooperation agency to determine the precise causes of the outage. The aim is to “fully ascertain the causes that led to this situation" and how to prevent future incidents.

Meanwhile, grid operator E-Redes has issued a public warning about possible scams targeting customers in the aftermath of the blackout. The company stressed that no intervention is required at electricity meters unless customers have been previously notified.

"Customers will never be charged directly for any of these trips," E-Redes clarified, urging the public to remain vigilant and report suspicious activity.

Spanish National Court Judge José Luis Calama has announced that he has launched a preliminary investigation into whether Monday's blackout of the Spanish power grid may have been a cyberattack, despite power and grid companies stating otherwise.

The country's highest criminal court will probe whether the blackout could have been an act of "computer sabotage" against Spain's critical infrastructure. "Cyberterrorism was among the possible explanations" for the blackout, Calama said.

The company that manages Spain's electricity grid, REE, had earlier ruled out a cyberattack as the cause of the blackout.

On Monday, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said that no hypothesis had yet been ruled out to explain why the region experienced such a massive loss of electricity in such a short time span. However, he added that there was no "conclusive information" yet suggesting the outage was the result of a terrorist attack

The meat sector employers' associations Anice and Fecic estimate direct losses of 190 million euros linked to Monday's blackout, reports Spanish daily El País.

There were losses in meat products in slaughterhouses, cutting rooms, and processing industries. Damage has also been reported to machinery, treatment plants, pumping stations, electronic devices and systems.

Restaurants and the hospitality sector have also been hit hard by the outage, with small businesses losing perishable stock left in freezers overnight, as well as customers during the outages.

Spain's power company REE, which operates the country's electricity transmission system, said that the electricity grid suffered two "disconnection events" barely a second apart from each other, just before power cut out across Spain.

The incidents took place in the country's southwest, where there is a large amount of solar power generation.

The company ruled out both a cyberattack and "human error" as a cause for the incident.

We're hearing more from the European Commission, which just one month ago presented a recommendation asking member states to develop a 72-hour emergency kit for citizens. Back then, the presentation was met with a mixed reaction: critics accused Brussels of fear-mongering and war hysteria.

"Does the Commission feel somehow vindicated?" Euronews asked during today's press conference.

"No, obviously not, and we are happy that the situation is getting back to normal," a spokesperson replied.

"The preparedness strategy is not about vindicating or about anything like this. It's about changing the mindset. It's mainly about the fact that people are prepared, because, and I think it applies to many situations in life, being prepared is better than being badly surprised. And maybe this was the case of some people in Spain and Portugal yesterday."

The emergency kit is not "an obligation," and it's up to each member state to decide how they want to prepare their own citizens for unexpected crises, the spokesperson added, noting the first 72 hours are the "most important" to keep society running.

"If people are prepared and if they keep in mind something can happen and know what to do in such a scenario, then obviously it's easier," the spokesperson said.

Health workers across Spain and Portugal were thrust into emergency mode during Monday’s blackout, grappling with a crisis that, in some ways, felt eerily reminiscent of the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic.

But this time, there was no mobile phone service, no Internet, and no power.

Euronews' Gaby Galvin reports that hospitals had to act fast, prioritising life-saving care while cold-chain storage for vaccines and medicines became an urgent concern.

Routine services were halted, and medical teams worked with minimal digital infrastructure. The blackout has also shed new light on the fragility of healthcare systems under sudden, large-scale outages, underscoring the need for stronger contingency planning.

How Spain and Portugal’s health workers adapted to power outages

Doctors and pharmacists across the region raced to keep critical medicines cold and decipher handwritten prescriptions. Then they waited.…

A day after Spain's grid operator ruled out a cyber-attack as the cause of the blackout, Portugal has done the same.

“In Portugal, we have no information related to a cyber-attack or a hostile act at this stage,” government spokesperson Antonio Leitao Amaro told CNN Portugal.

"There would seem to have been an issue in the power transmission network in Spain.”

The European Commission says it will wait for the "full assessment" from the Spanish and Portuguese authorities before drawing any conclusions about what the massive outage means for the bloc's energy security. The Commission, however, welcomed as "good news" the preliminary announcement by Red Eléctrica that a cyberattack has been ruled out as a possible cause for the unprecedented incident.

"At this stage, we're not yet in a position to draw concrete conclusions on the specific event yesterday. For that, we will need to wait for a final assessment by the experts," Paula Pinho, the Commission's chief spokesperson, said on Monday afternoon.

"This was of unprecedented magnitude, so obviously we will be looking into the lessons learned."

The Commission is working "very closely" with national and European transmission operators to obtain further information about the reasons behind the outage. "This will take its time," Pinho warned.

The spokesperson echoed the Commission's long-held view that a more "integrated and interconnected" European network would help strengthen energy security. "That is a principle that applies regardless of whatever reasons turn out to be the cause for what happened in the Iberian Peninsula yesterday," she said.

For migrants in Portugal, Monday’s power outage has intensified ongoing frustrations with the country’s immigration system.

Just a week after protests called attention to long delays in residency and regularisation processes, the Agency for Integration, Migration and Asylum (AIMA) has now reported service disruptions due to computer issues, compounded by the recent blackout.

In a post on LinkedIn, AIMA confirmed that technical problems are “limiting the provision of services,” and that teams are currently focused on sorting documents and rescheduling appointments.

While the agency says it is working to restore full functionality, the timing has sparked renewed criticism from migrant communities, who say the outages only highlight the fragility of a system already under pressure.

In a televised press conference, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said the results of the ongoing investigation into the recent nationwide blackout will be used to reinforce the country’s electricity infrastructure.

The government will "demand responsibility from private operators," he stated, emphasizing that access to renewable energy sources remained uninterrupted during the outage.

Sánchez says Spain was able to restore electricity due to connections from France and Morocco.

Sánchez also addressed the spread of misinformation surrounding the incident, urging citizens to remain cautious and rely on verified information.

Responding to questions from reporters, the Prime Minister said there was no "conclusive information" to suggest the blackout was the result of a terrorist attack.

In another line from Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez's speech, the leader has rejected a question that a lack of nuclear power was the cause of the blackout.

He will request an "independent report" from Brussels to have a "more accurate picture" of what happened as the blackout unfolded.

As the dust settles from Monday’s massive power outage, questions are turning to the broader economic fallout across Spain and Portugal.

Euronews has asked the experts and business owners about how Spain and Portugal's economies could be impacted by the power cut that hit large parts of both countries on Monday.

From lower production as workers were sent home to the main sectors hit by the power cut, here’s what the experts said.

How Spain and Portugal’s economies could be hit by the blackout

Euronews asks the experts and speaks to businesses about how Spain and Portugal’s economies could be impacted by the power cut that hit large parts of……

Spain's Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, said that the government has launched an investigation into the cause of the historic blackout across the country.

He thanked the Spanish public for their behavior: "What Spain has shown in the past 24 hours, in addition to the speed of the electricity system’s restoration, is that it has an admirable population. Yesterday, our country once again faced a critical situation, and the citizens’ response was up to the task."

The Prime Minister said it was "unthinkable" that such an event could occur in Spain, adding that a thorough investigation will ensure a similar blackout does not happen again.

He also praised the resilience of Spanish workers: "In the last 24 hours, our system has shown great capacity for recovery and has proven to be one of the most advanced in the world."

The Spanish supermarket association Asedas has confirmed that stores across the country are operating “with normality and punctuality” following Monday’s widespread power outage. In a public statement, the group urged consumers to remain calm and avoid panic buying.

"The electricity grid has been progressively restored," Asedas said, noting only minor delays in deliveries of some fresh products. Nearly all stores reopened on time today, and the association assured the public that food supply and safety are guaranteed.

The European organisation representing retailers and wholesalers, Eurocommerce, echoed those reassurances in a separate statement issued yesterday. While it acknowledged ongoing disruptions to payment systems and store operations, it warned against misinformation.

"The full impact on the sector is yet to be assessed," Eurocommerce said, but encouraged consumers across Spain and Portugal to stay informed through official channels.

More firsthand accounts from hospital staff caught in Monday’s power outage show how some medical teams managed to maintain safety and calm under pressure despite widespread outages across the country.

A worker from the operating room at a major hospital in Lisbon, speaking anonymously to Euronews, described how the blackout forced a near-complete halt to scheduled procedures, but tasks already started were carried out regularly.

"When the power outage happened, the surgeries that were taking place finished without any problems," the staff member said. But all surgeries scheduled for later in the day were cancelled.

Fortunately, hospital teams were able to contact many of the affected patients before they arrived at the hospital, helping to avoid further complications. Only emergency services remained operational for the rest of the day.

Valencia and its surrounding community experienced Monday’s power outage in a unique atmosphere, still reeling from the devastating DANA floods that occurred just six months ago.

In the city, power cuts brought immediate disruption, seen in other cities: traffic lights failed, trains ground to a halt, long lines formed at bus and taxi stops, and people were trapped in elevators.

But for many residents, the blackout triggered deeper memories of an even darker time.

Euronews’ Méabh Mc Mahon has been visiting the city over the past few days, finding citizens who are still processing the trauma of the floods.

"We lost it in the DANA," many locals in villages outside Valencia reply of their personal belongings.

From baby strollers to wedding dresses, laptops to photo albums - six months after the devastating floods in a number of villages outside Valencia, the so-called DANA remains the only thing on people's minds.

More than 227 people lost their lives, and thousands of businesses and homes were damaged in the aftermath of this atmospheric phenomenon, which on 29 October 2024 brought torrential rain and a year's worth of precipitation.

Read more on Méabh’s reporting from Valencia.

Valencians physically, emotionally exhausted six months on from floods

Valencians process historical outage whilst marking six months since the DANA floods that took the lives of 227 people. #EuropeNews…

How did Spaniards live through the blackout?

Euronews just heard the testimony of Isabel Rodó, an expert in digital communication based in A Coruña, Galicia. "We had no power from 12.30 pm until 2.00 am," she remembers. "For me, the most agonising part was the moment that night fell and we were in the dark. I lit up one candle and began reading my book."

Isabel says the collapse in telecommunications prompted an information vacuum that made it impossible to obtain updates in real time. She saw lines of people on the street trying to buy an analog radio, one of the few tools to access information. "We didn’t know if the situation was improving or not. I couldn't speak with my father, who lives alone," she says. "It was a bit of chaos, especially the uncertainty. People were saying the prime minister (Pedro Sánchez) was going to speak on TV, but we had no way of knowing what he was going to say."

Isabel had 30 euros in cash, which she used to buy something for dinner, as the food she had in her house couldn't be eaten raw. She went out to find a store and was careful not to spend all the money, fearing the blackout, which closed down all ATMs, could continue the following day. "We depend on electricity for some many things," she says.

More personal accounts are emerging in the wake of Monday’s widespread power outage. A nurse at a haemodialysis unit in Lisbon, shared her experience with Euronews.

Her story highlights just how disruptive the blackout was for frontline healthcare workers and patients.

"Yesterday was very chaotic," she said. From 12:30 pm to 4:30 pm, her unit was forced to halt operations after the backup generator overheated. As a result, treatments were delayed by three hours while patients scheduled for 1 pm weren’t treated until 6 pm.

Daily dialysis patients were prioritised and remained on schedule, but with no emergency room capacity, others had to receive shorter treatment times to avoid knock-on delays for the next shift.

“The inability to communicate with firefighters and patients also made it very difficult to manage and reorganise the schedule,” said the nurse, highlighting how communication problems further complicated the situation.

Her team also had to refuel the generator twice during the disruption, raising concerns about how long they could have sustained operations for another couple of days like that.

Spain’s national electricity operator, Red Eléctrica, said it can exclude for now the possibility of a cyberattack as the cause of Monday’s massive power outage.

Speaking at a press conference moments ago, Eduardo Prieto, director of operational Services at Red Eléctrica, said that based on the data analysed so far, "we can preliminarily rule out a cybersecurity incident in Red Eléctrica's facilities and control centre."

According to the operator, the national grid was in a stable and secure condition just before the failure. Then, in a matter of seconds, two nearly simultaneous events were detected in the southwest region of the Iberian Peninsula, both consistent with sudden losses in power generation.

These disturbances triggered system-wide oscillations just 3.5 seconds later, ultimately leading to an automatic disconnection from the French grid. The entire chain of events unfolded in just five seconds, according to Red Eléctrica.

The investigation into the exact cause of the outage is still ongoing, but Prieto emphasised that early findings do not point to any form of malicious digital interference at this stage.

More details are expected as the inquiry continues.

Hospital operations have now returned to normal in Portugal following the power outage, according to health officials.

Thousands of appointments, surgeries, and treatments were postponed as several hospitals struggled to maintain services during the blackout. But today, hospital administrators report that routine care has resumed.

Xavier Barreto, president of the Portuguese Association of Hospital Administrators (APAH), told Lusa news agency that no cancellations were needed for Tuesday’s schedule.

“We’re going to reschedule yesterday’s patients and are finalising those lists today,” he said, adding that staff are working with urgency to make up for lost time.

Barreto noted that while all hospitals relied on generators during the outage, some had limited autonomy, leading to tense moments as fuel supplies were replenished.

King Felipe VI has arrived at an emergency National Security Council meeting in Spain as authorities piece together what could have happened to cause a blackout of such scale.

Portuguese grid operator REN said yesterday the outage was caused by a “rare atmospheric phenomenon”, which included extreme temperature variations in Spain causing disruption in very high-voltage lines. A statement from Spain's national meteorological office on Tuesday, however, appeared to rule weather out.

One month ago, the European Commission made headlines when it recommended that member states develop a 72-hour survival kit that can help citizens manage any unexpected crisis. A promotional video saw Commissioner Hadja Lahbib stocking several items in her emergency bag, including a flashlight, matches, a lighter, water, a Swiss army knife, medication, canned snacks, cash, a charger, a power bank, a radio and even a deck of cards for entertainment.

The video went quickly viral, amassing over four million views, but for the wrong reasons: critics took aim at the comical tone and fast-paced editing of the video, which seemed at odds with the seriousness of the topic. The team of Lahbib ended up restricting comments on the social media post. The Commission's preparedness strategy was also decried as fear-mongering and war hysteria.

But after the events in Spain and Portugal, there’s an inevitable sense of vindication in Brussels. The items that Lahbib gleefully put in her bag, including a radio, a flashlight and banknotes, were among those that citizens in the Iberian Peninsula were desperately searching for to cope with the blackout and receive information.

Brussels asks EU citizens to have a 72-hour emergency kit for crises

The emergency kit should include food, water, and copies of important identity documents, among other items. #EuropeNews…

Staff at the Sete Rios Health Centre in Lisbon are reporting issues with computer systems, according to a report by Portuguese radio Antena 1.

It’s not possible to access users’ files or prescribe prescriptions, with doctors and nurses handing out prescriptions on paper.

It’s unclear if the issue is isolated to the health centre or part of a problem across the country’s health system.

Hospitals across Portugal relied on backup generators to maintain critical operations during the blackout, which caught hundreds of facilities off guard.

Spain’s State Meteorological Agency (AEMET) has just said that the country did not register “any unusual meteorological or atmospheric phenomena, nor any sudden variation in temperatures” during the day of the general blackout, 28 April.

Strange weather had been suspected as a possible cause for the abrupt loss of electricity but the findings from AEMET seem to completely rule out that link.

Train networks in Spain's northwest Galicia region are inoperative as the region struggles to regain power.

"Those who decide to travel are asked not to go to the stations until further notice," Spain's train operator, Renfe, said in a post on social media.

Travellers can request a refund or change of train free of charge through its website, the operator added.

By Tuesday morning, local media reported that the Galicia region had restored approximately 84% of its electricity, with rural areas continuing to face challenges.

More on the impact on local businesses and hospitality: María, the owner of an ice cream shop in Valencia's Aldaia district, told Euronews that the blackout brought back bad memories of widespread floods in the region in October last year.

She had just reopened her ice cream shop and bought new equipment after it was destroyed in the flooding. "Yesterday, we relived the hell and stress of 29 October."

"Everyone is on high alert after the floods," María said.

The hospitality industry is expected to be hit hard by yesterday's blackout. Earlier, Portugal's National Restaurant Association spoke of a "serious impact," as hundreds of restaurants across the country lost large quantities of stock in the power outage.

In the last hour, Portugal's government confirmed that full electricity has been restored across the country, with citizens now "connected normally."

There were no security or civil protection disturbances during the night, the government said.

“We now have practically all services, including the energy supply, restored,” Presidency Minister António Leitão Amaro said. Around 800 customers are still experiencing faults due to an unrelated incident.

Water supplies are now running throughout the country, and metro systems have been restored, apart from some delays.

Euronews reporter Sándor Zsíros is on the ground in Valencia, where power has been restored, but phone connections and the internet are still patchy.

"Card payments are not possible, so you can't buy water if you don't have cash."

Watch his full report below:

All of the Community of Madrid's municipalities have recovered electricity, the regional government announced at around 9:00 AM CET.

The last part of the region gained power at around 3:00 AM, authorities said. Just after midnight, 129 out of 179 municipalities had power.

In Portugal, many are still stranded on Tuesday morning at Faro Airport in the popular Algarve region. Dozens of flights were cancelled on Monday, leaving hundreds of people to spend a miserable night at the airport.

In Lisbon, flights at Lisbon Airport have returned to normal after the airport was temporarily closed for over nine hours on Monday.

Portugal’s state-owned train operator, Comboios de Portugal, has restored its website, but it has not yet announced any service disruptions for Tuesday.

The metro network in the city of Porto resumed operations at 6:00 AM CET, according to a post on its social media.

Carris Metropolitana, the public bus network serving the Lisbon Metropolitan Area, has no updates on its website regarding operations, and Lisbon's metro continues to have several lines closed.

Portugal's National Restaurant Association says it is still assessing the damage from Monday's blackout but has warned that the impact was "very serious."

Restaurants across the country lost "large quantities of perishable products such as meat, seafood, fresh fish, and frozen cod, which deteriorated due to the lack of power," the association said.

In addition to product losses, "establishments have also experienced a significant drop in turnover."

More from Valencia, on the east coast of the Iberian Peninsula, where the community's President Carlos Mazón has requested reinforcement of the community's security forces to avoid incidents following the blackouts.

"We have addressed the city councils so that the local police and the regional police are reinforced to the maximum," Mazón writes on X.

He announced that health centres, nursing homes and social centres will open as usual. Earlier, we reported that schools will be open but without classes, as many teachers are struggling to get to work.

Yesterday the community of Valencia, which has a population of over 5 million, experienced a complete loss of power.

It's a mixed picture across Spain and Portugal as normal life picks up again following a huge power outage.

The Portuguese Ministry of Education announced this morning that "educational establishments must reopen and operate normally" after power and water supplies have been restored throughout the night.

In Spain, the majority of the country's communities said their schools would open normally. Schools in Madrid, Aragon, La Rioja, Extremadura and Valencia will open but won't hold any classes.

In Valencia, teachers are struggling to get to work. Four lines of the city's Metrovalencia service, 1, 2, 7 and 10 are running with disrupted services.

Schools in Galicia and Castilla-La Mancha are closed for the time being, according to Spanish daily El Pais.

We've just heard from REN, Portugal's national energy infrastructure operator, which says that all of its substations had their power restored shortly before midnight on Monday.

"It should be noted that REN, in close collaboration with national and international network operators, was able to restore the RNT before the end of the day yesterday, and it can be said that the network is perfectly stabilised," the operator said.

Almost all electricity has been restored in mainland Spain, according to Red Electrica.

The operator says that 99.16% of power has returned across the country.

"All substations on the transmission grid are operational. We continue with the restoration work," the operator says.

Power has been totally restored in the southeastern region of Murcia, according to President Fernando López Miras.

He asks the central government to deactivate Level 3 of the "emergency plan", which was put in place yesterday.

A Level 3 emergency in Spain is declared when a disaster's scale or impact overwhelms the resources and coordination of regional governments, allowing direct intervention from the central government.

Madrid's Metro will begin a partial service at 8:00 AM according to the President of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso.

Line 7A, between Pitis and Hospital del Henares, is still impacted. Around 80% of trains are set to run at morning rush hour. The city's mobility operator, which handles buses, public parking and vehicle removal, has resumed its regular service.

Earlier, Spanish rail operator Renfe said that train services in Madrid would operate at 50%.

Enaire, Spain's air navigation manager, has announced that air operations have been restored at the three control centres initially affected by the power outage in Madrid, Barcelona and Seville.

Yesterday, around 45 outgoing flights were cancelled, most in airports near Madrid and Barcelona.

If you are in Spain or Portugal and have been affected by the blackouts, email me with your experiences and pictures at tamsin.paternoster@euronews.com.

We're just hearing from Spanish rail operator, Renfe, who announced that urban train services in Madrid will operate at 50%, except for line 5 which runs from the city's southwest to the northeast.

The company also said that commercial high-speed and long-distance services between Madrid and Barcelona, Valencia, Murcia, Alicante, the Basque Country and Algeciras have resumed their normal operation.

Just a reminder that in Spain a state of emergency declared by Prime Minister Sanchez last night will continue this morning.

More from the company that operates Spain's National Grid.

As of 5:00 AM CET distributor Red Eléctrica said that all of Spain's electricity substations had power.

According to the Spanish company, the equivalent of 92.1% of electricity demand in mainland Spain had been restored.

People across Madrid cheered as power was restored to the city following an eight-hour long blackout.

Welcome to our live coverage on the fallout of an enormous power outage that left millions across Spain and Portugal without electricity.

It's still not clear what caused the blackout, however, Portuguese Prime Minister Luis Montenegro last night ruled out a cyber attack.

Power has been partially been restored overnight. In Spain, Red Eléctrica, a partly state-owned body which operates Spain's national grid, reported at 04:00 AM CET that 87% of power had returned.

Portuguese operator REN said by 22.00 PM CET that it had managed to restore power to 85 of its 89 substations and cutting stations as part of its efforts to solve the blackout.

Stay with us as we bring you the latest updates throughout the morning.