{"id":301787,"date":"2025-04-29T04:40:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T11:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/es\/?p=353894"},"modified":"2025-07-01T14:46:51","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T21:46:51","slug":"spain-suffered-a-historic-blackout-as-15-gigawatts-disappeared-in-5-seconds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/spain-suffered-a-historic-blackout-as-15-gigawatts-disappeared-in-5-seconds\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain suffered a historic blackout as 15 gigawatts disappeared in 5 seconds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Spain has been facing a significant blackout since 12:32 AM, with a sudden loss of 15 gigawatts (GW) of electricity generation in just five seconds, which represents approximately 60% of the country&#8217;s demand at that moment.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the President of the Government, Pedro S\u00e1nchez, 99% of the electricity supply has been restored as of 8 AM today, showing significant progress in recovery, which was at 35% at 8:35 PM yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The causes of the blackout are still under investigation. S\u00e1nchez reiterated that specialists are analyzing all possibilities, although the European Union has ruled out a cyberattack as the cause of the supply failure.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">Actualizamos informaci\u00f3n\u2b07\ufe0f11:15h.<br><br>\u2705Normalizado el funcionamiento del sistema el\u00e9ctrico peninsular. <br>\u2705Tras superar la punta de demanda de la ma\u00f1ana a las 8.35 con 28.677MW, el pico nocturno se espera a las 21:10h con 31.200 MW.<\/p>&mdash; Red El\u00e9ctrica (@RedElectricaREE) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RedElectricaREE\/status\/1917145514279158246?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 29, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The EU rules out a cyberattack in the unprecedented blackout in Spain<\/h2>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This unprecedented incident has highlighted the vulnerability of the electrical system, where wind and photovoltaic power plants disconnected from the grid upon detecting a voltage dip, thus contributing to the loss of generation.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The recovery of the supply has not been uniform; yesterday there were autonomous communities that had reached up to 97% restoration, while others barely exceeded 15%.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"APAG\u00d3N MASIVO: La ENERG\u00cdA FRANCESA, CLAVE en la RECUPERACI\u00d3N del SUMINISTRO en ESPA\u00d1A | RTVE\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8mov6cbVsQw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In light of this situation, the Government has implemented level three of civil protection in several regions, recommending that educational centers remain open but without teaching activities.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pedro S\u00e1nchez, in his appearance, emphasized that preventive measures are being taken to assist those municipalities where electricity may take longer to return. Today, energy has already been restored across Spanish territory by 99.95%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spain has been facing a significant blackout since 12:32 AM, with a sudden loss of 15 gigawatts (GW) of electricity generation in just five seconds, representing approximately 60% of the country&#8217;s demand at that moment. According to the President of the Government, Pedro S\u00e1nchez, 99% of the electricity supply has been restored by 8 AM today, showing significant progress in recovery, which was at 35% at 8:35 PM yesterday. The causes of the blackout are still under investigation. S\u00e1nchez reiterated that specialists are analyzing all [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9317,"featured_media":301791,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-301787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301787"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307476,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301787\/revisions\/307476"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301787"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=301787"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=301787"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=301787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}