Portugal wants European energy regulators' agency ACER to lead an independent investigation into the causes of the huge power outage that brought most of Spain and Portugal to a standstill last ...

It was the second serious European power outage in less than six weeks after a March 20 fire shut down Heathrow Airport in the U.K., and it came as authorities across Europe gird against sabotage ...

Portugal will demand that the European Commission push France for better electricity links to the Iberian Peninsula following last month’s crippling power outage, Portuguese Energy Minister ...

How wildfires are impacting popular destinations in Greece, Portugal, France, and Spain amid this August's dangerous heat ...

The day before the outage in Nice, the Alpes-Maritimes area, where the resort town of Cannes is located, suffered a power cut from around 10 a.m. local time (4 a.m. ET) to 4:30 p.m. local time (10 ...

A version of this article appears in print on June 19, 2025, Section A, Page 10 of the New York edition with the headline: Spain Blames Missteps and Technical Issues for Vast Power Outage.

Spain lost 15 gigawatts of electricity — or about 60% of its supply. Portugal, whose grid is connected to Spain's, also went down. Only the countries' island territories were spared.

Extreme heat has smashed temperature records across Europe in recent days, fueling wildfires. Weather forecaster Meteo France ...

French authorities said on Saturday that a power outage in the Cannes area in southeastern France that briefly disrupted the film festival there was caused by acts of sabotage, including arson at ...