What caused Spain and Portugal’s power cut? | BBC News

Spanish power company Red Eléctrica has ruled out a cyber-attack as the cause of Monday’s mass blackouts, that left millions across Spain and Portugal without power.

Portuguese Prime Minister Luis Montenegro also said there was no indication that a cyber-attack was behind the outages.

Electric grids suffered two “disconnection events” – systems recovered from the first, but the second triggered the power cuts in both Spain and Portugal, with no indication of human error.