Waking up this morning to news that electricity is down in Spain, Portugal and other countries in Europe. Some preliminary reports say it is due to a Russian cyber attack. https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c9wpq8xrvd9t
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The network is coming back slowly. The north is already functioning as normal. It should be fine during the day.
As a Spaniard, I would almost prefer that this is a cyber-attack, but my money is on the Spanish government's ineptitude (The Spanish Communist Party is in a government coalition with the Socialist Party, so it would be really weird that this is an attack by the Russians, ffs, we're buying more gas from them than before their invasion of Ukraine). Also, this is a Spanish electrical network problem (the part about France is just the bit in SW France connected to our grid, and Portugal is fully connected).
The latest news is saying that the outage is due to faults in Spain’s electric grid. https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c9wpq8xrvd9t?post=asset:ddda9592-0346-4fe8-a17a-2261efc1ba5b#post
I'm assuming you're not familiar with Spanish politics, but the context would be something like this: Trump puts Kushner in charge of the electrical grid, fires 20% of the technical staff, demolishes fossile-fuel plants and dismantles nuclear plants all while encouraging electric cars and data centers. Still no idea what the cause may be, but my money is on stupidity, not malice. https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon's_razor