A family eats a snack by candlelight during a blackout in Barcelona, Spain, Monday, April 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
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A massive blackout that hit most of the Iberian Peninsula on Monday was due to a sudden, large drop in power supply that caused the grid interconnection between Spain and France to trip, according to Spanish grid operator.
The network lost 15 gigawatts of electricity generation in five seconds at around 1033 GMT, the Energy Ministry said on Monday evening, without explaining the reason for the loss.
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