# 2025 iberian peninsula blackout ![[seguimientodelademandaeléctricaenespaña.png.jpg|300]] drop of spanish power generation and demand after 12:30 from 25 gw to 10 gw date: 28 april 2025 time: 12:33 (cest); 11:33 (west) location: mainland portugal peninsular spain andorra and parts of southwest france; with minor effects in greenland and morocco type: power outage cause: undetermined deaths: ±7 in spain ±1 in portugal non-fatal injuries: >25 on monday 28 april 2025 at 12:33 cest (11:33 west; 10:33 utc) a major power blackout occurred across the iberian peninsula affecting mainland portugal and peninsular spain where electric power was interrupted for about ten hours in most of the peninsula and longer in some areas. the power cut caused severe difficulties in telecommunications transportation systems and essential sectors such as emergency services. at least seven people in spain and one in portugal may have died due to outage-related circumstances like candle fires or generator exhaust fumes minor power cuts lasting seconds or minutes occurred in adjacent regions of andorra and parts of southwestern france. reports indicated problems with the european synchronous electricity grid. traffic lights in many places stopped working and metro lines had to be evacuated researcher henry swanson: interestingly there have been a recent spate of mysterious power outages down at the secrete underground research base that is institutional power - resulting in a rapid loss of assumed automatic obedience to seemingly inherent (/notions of) authority **+** list of largest power outages // republic of bob