With the return of the power of Spain and Portugal, the issue of obfuscation remains unknown – national

The force was almost completely restored Spain and Portugal On Tuesday, although many questions remained about their most severe cause power failure These Founding flights, paralyzed metro systems, disrupted mobile communications and closed ATMs across the Iberian Peninsula.

By 7 am, more than 99 % of the energy demand in Spain has been restored, the country’s electricity operator, Red Eléctrica. The Portuguese network operator Ren said on Tuesday morning that all 89 sub -stations have returned online from the last night and the energy was restored to all 6.4 million customers.

By Tuesday morning, life was returning to normal: Schools and offices were reopened in Spain, as traffic fell along the main arteries in the capital and the public transport that was restarted after a great delay.

The Spanish authorities have not provided new explanations because of the cause of blackout, one of the most dangerous in Europe.

In a televised speech on Monday night, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said that the energy network of the southern European nation, which has 49 million people, lost 15 gigawatts – equivalent to 60 % of its national request – in only five seconds.

“We haven’t had a complete collapse of the regime,” Sanchez said. The authorities were still investigating what happened on Tuesday.

This large -scale electrical failure has a few precedents on the Iberian Peninsula or in Europe.

On Tuesday, AEMET Meteorological Agency said it had not discovered any “meteorological or atmosphere phenomena” on Monday, and no sudden temperature fluctuations were recorded in weather stations.

On Monday, the National Cyber ​​Security Center in Portugal threw the cold water on feverish speculation about the wrong play, saying that there is no sign that the power outage resulted from an electronic attack. “There are no indications of any electronic attack” on Monday afternoon.

The Teresa Ribera, CEO of the European Commission, has also ruled out a sabotage. However, the power outage “is one of the most dangerous episodes in Europe recently.”

At the largest train stations in Spain, the pillars of travelers waited on Tuesday morning on the trains, or to return the ticket book that was canceled or disabled on Monday and return to the homeland.

At Atocha Station in Madrid, hundreds of people stood near the screens waiting for updates. Many spent tonight at the station, wrapped in the blankets offered by the Red Cross at about one o’clock on Tuesday morning for those who had to wait overnight thanks to the canceled trains. Similar scenes played at St. Station in Barcelona.

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The Madrid Open Tennis Championship, which will be held this week, was still affected by the power outage on Tuesday after being canceled the day before. The last championship organizer opened its doors.

By 11 am on Tuesday, the service was completely restored on the Madrid Metro system. In Barcelona, ​​the system was operating normally but passenger trains were suspended due to “electrical instability,” said Rodals Catalunya, on X.

In some parts of the country, the services of passengers and medium distances are still hanging or working with a reduced capacity.

Emergency workers in Spain said that they saved about 35,000 passengers on Monday, who were cut off along the railway and under the ground, with the power outage that turned into sports centers, train stations and airports into temporary shelters overnight.

On Monday, Robin Carion was cut off on a passenger train outside Madrid, when he opened the window and opened to the nearest crossing station. After that, he spent tonight at Atocha Station in the city after his train was canceled to Barcelona.

The 24 -year -old said that he chose to wait overnight at the station instead of a hotel so that he can stay at always when he can ride a train at home, describing his experience as “pure chaos.”

–The Associated Presse Helena Alves in Lisbon, Portugal, contributed to this report.

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