(29 Apr 2025)
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Madrid – 28/29 April 2025
1. Various of aid being delivered to people stranded in Madrid’s Atocha train station
2. Various of people waiting on concourse of train station during rush hour
STORYLINE:
People waited to board trains in the Atocha railway station in Madrid on Tuesday morning, after a power blackout disrupted all transportation services for over 24 hours.
Power had almost fully returned to Spain early Tuesday morning as many questions remained about what caused one of Europe’s most severe blackouts that grounded flights, paralyzed metro systems, disrupted mobile communications and shut down ATMs across Spain and Portugal.
By 7:00 a.m., more than 99% of energy demand in Spain had been restored, the country’s electricity operator Red Eléctrica said. Portuguese grid operator REN said Tuesday morning all of the 89 power substations were back online since late last night.
But on Tuesday morning, as life slowly returned to normal, many people crowded into train stations waiting to board, and internet connections were intermittent.
Officials did not say what caused the blackout, the second such serious European power outage in as many months after a fire at Heathrow Airport shut down Britain’s busiest travel hub on March 20.
They said there was little precedent for this kind of widespread electric failure across all of the Iberian Peninsula, with a combined population of some 60 million
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