A countrywide power outage impacted Spain—as well as swaths of Portugal and smaller portions of France—Monday afternoon, affecting essential services and wreaking chaos across the Iberian Peninsula.
The cause of the outage is currently being investigated by Spanish and Portuguese officials and ministers.
"We have activated the procedures planned for restoring power supply; in this phase of the work, the objective is to provide power to the generating units so they can start up and propagate power to the grid and other units," electricity company Red Eléctrica said in Spanish in a press release on Monday.
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