This week's top stories include an enormous power outage across Spain and Portugal, National Grid's new CEO and President ...

It was the second serious European power outage in less than six weeks after a March 20 fire shut down Heathrow Airport in ...

Energy experts were surprised by the inability to isolate the blackout to a single area, forcing the system to be rebooted ...

Nuclear expert Adrian Paterson has raised concerns "an unstable wind plus solar grid" could lead to major blackouts, such as those seen in Spain and Portugal, occurring in Australia ...

Red Electrica de Espana (REE) on Wednesday said the source of the outage had been narrowed down to two separate incidents of loss of generation in substations in southwestern Spain, but stressed that ...

Spain and Portugal have some of the highest shares of wind, solar and hydro power in Europe: in 2024 these provided nearly 60 ...

Banking services relying on electricity, such as credit card payments and ATM withdrawals, have been largely restored in ...

Spain's blackout shouldn't trigger a retreat from renewables, but an upgraded grid is urgently needed for the energy ...

Spanish authorities will investigate the causes of the hours-long power outage on Monday, which also affected Portugal and ...

The power cuts that swept across Spain, Portugal and parts of southern France plunged the Iberian peninsula into chaos.

The mass electrical blackout across Spain, Portugal and parts of France sparked hours of chaos before power returned – with ...