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| Spain hit by more blackouts as 'tens of thousands' left without power in Canary Islands |
| 2025-05-10 |
| [Daily Mail, where America get its news] A power outage hit several areas of the Spanish island of La Palma in the Canary Islands on Thursday, just a week after national outages. Local media reported that thousands of locals and holidaymakers across the island were left without power for nearly two hours after a blackout occurred at around 10am local time. The affected areas included Los Llanos de Aridane, Breña Alta, Santa Cruz de La Palma and Fuencaliente. More than twenty towns were left without in the dark in these areas, stretching from north to south of the island, before Endesa and Red Eléctrica begun working on restoring power. Javier Llamas, the mayor of the town of Aridane, told a local radio station at around midday that: 'More than half of the power outage has already been restored.' Local media reports explained how the power outage could potentially affect up to 30,000 people in La Palma. 'The source is unknown for now, but everything points to a problem at the Los Guinchos power plant,' La Radio Canaria said. La Palma was not affected by the massive blackout that hit most of Spain and Portugal, including their capitals, Madrid and Lisbon, on April 28. Airports were disabled, and shops and offices were left in the dark. Traffic was gridlocked, flights were grounded, and trains were suspended while people waited to be rescued from elevators and were left without water supplies. Whole cities were cut off with mobile networks, Wi-Fi, ATMs and card machines inoperative during the disruption, which began around 12.30pm last Monday. Renfe, the national rail operator in Spain, confirmed the outage and its impact in a statement at the time. 'At 12:30 p.m., the entire national electricity grid was cut off. Trains stopped and there were no departures at any station,' the statement said. By 7am local time on April 29, more than 99 per cent of energy demand in Spain had been restored, the country's electricity operator Red Eléctrica said. Portuguese grid operator REN said the following morning all the 89 power substations had been back online since late the night before and power had been restored to all 6.4million customers. 'We have never had a complete collapse of the system,' Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said in a televised address following the chaos. He described the problem in the European grid as a 'strong oscillation' and added that the cause was still being determined. Sanchez asked the public to refrain from speculation and said no theory about the cause of the outage had been discarded. He also thanked the governments of France and Morocco where energy was being pulled from to restore power to north and southern Spain. |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #3 'We have never had a complete collapse of the system,' You. Don't. Say. But the Canary Islands, they plugged into the mainland? |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2025-05-10 10:01 |
| #2 Toxic cloud forces 160,000 Spaniards to stay inside after fire |
| Posted by: Grom the Affective 2025-05-10 06:41 |
| #1 Go woke, go broke. |
| Posted by: Grom the Affective 2025-05-10 04:37 |