Widespread power outage in Spain and Portugal • Hacker News Board

Re: Widespread power outage in Spain and Portugal

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Post by mirekrusin » Mon, Apr 28, 2025, 11:10 AM UTC

People are not voting this up to top because they're offline. This outage is quite massive.

Re: Widespread power outage in Spain and Portugal

#12

Post by znq » Mon, Apr 28, 2025, 11:12 AM UTC

Confirmed by contacts on the ground in Spain and Portugal.

Not the best news source, but it’s the only one I’ve found so far. HN moderators, feel free to replace it later with a better one.

Supposedly also France is affected (unconfirmed)

Re: Widespread power outage in Spain and Portugal

#13

Post by rcarmo » Mon, Apr 28, 2025, 11:13 AM UTC

celso wrote: post #10

Portugal has no electricity as we speak. Funny enough telcos and 4G/5G are fine for now, I'm guessing batteries and diesel backups kicked in and are doing their job.

Yeah, we just told you that via Signal - that’s how we built the networks :)

(No relation to the other infamous Signal chat :))

There should be 4-8 hours of battery backup on every site - at least.

Re: Widespread power outage in Spain and Portugal

#14

Post by EZ-E » Mon, Apr 28, 2025, 11:16 AM UTC

Looking forward to the postmortem

Re: Widespread power outage in Spain and Portugal

#15

Post by underdeserver » Mon, Apr 28, 2025, 11:18 AM UTC

How can we follow this story? Who's updating in real time?

Re: Widespread power outage in Spain and Portugal

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Post by meindnoch » Mon, Apr 28, 2025, 11:18 AM UTC

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Re: Widespread power outage in Spain and Portugal

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Post by suraci » Mon, Apr 28, 2025, 11:18 AM UTC

meindnoch wrote: post #16

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Re: Widespread power outage in Spain and Portugal

#18

Post by pera » Mon, Apr 28, 2025, 11:19 AM UTC

Parts of France are also affected according to Sky:

https://news.sky.com/story/large-parts-of-spain-and-portugal...

Re: Widespread power outage in Spain and Portugal

#19

Post by znq » Mon, Apr 28, 2025, 11:19 AM UTC

znq wrote: post #12

Confirmed by contacts on the ground in Spain and Portugal. Not the best news source, but it’s the only one I’ve found so far. HN moderators, feel free to replace it later with a better one. Supposedly also France is affected (unconfirmed)

This is the first brief article from El País, a leading newspaper in Spain: https://elpais.com/economia/2025-04-28/apagon-electrico-masi...

Translated version: https://elpais-com.translate.goog/economia/2025-04-28/apagon...

Re: Widespread power outage in Spain and Portugal

#20

Post by mrtksn » Mon, Apr 28, 2025, 11:21 AM UTC

Here's a "real time" map of electricity production and flow between countries: https://app.electricitymaps.com/map/72h/hourly

Would be interesting to see if it will register here.