{"id":77876,"date":"2025-04-29T14:43:52","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T14:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/what-caused-spain-and-portugals-power-cut-bbc-news\/"},"modified":"2025-04-29T14:43:52","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T14:43:52","slug":"what-caused-spain-and-portugals-power-cut-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/what-caused-spain-and-portugals-power-cut-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"What caused Spain and Portugal&#8217;s power cut? | BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spanish power company Red El\u00e9ctrica has ruled out a cyber-attack as the cause of Monday&#8217;s mass blackouts, that left millions <!--more--> across Spain and Portugal without power.<\/p>\n<p>Portuguese Prime Minister Luis Montenegro also said there was no indication that a cyber-attack was behind the outages.<\/p>\n<p>Electric grids suffered two &#8220;disconnection events&#8221; &#8211; systems recovered from the first, but the second triggered the power cuts in both Spain and Portugal, with no indication of human error.<\/p>\n<p>Power has now been fully restored in Spain and Portugal but travel disruption continues.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe here: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more news, analysis and features visit: www.bbc.com\/news <\/p>\n<p>#Spain #Portugal #BBCNews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spanish power company Red El\u00e9ctrica has ruled out a cyber-attack as the cause of Monday&#8217;s mass blackouts, that left millions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":77890,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}