Spain and Portugal maxi-blackout

c1vhosting · 11:37AM

Maxi Blackout of whole Spain and Portugal, do you have any update?

Nyr · 11:42AM

Government is not saying anything about the causes, but blackout has been going for like one hour and a half at this point.

Still have 5G, for now, probably not for long. Wish us luck.

Neoon · 11:58AM

Madrid and Portugal still up here, until now.
Is Mobile still working for you guys?

yoursunny · 12:08PM

Power company is hosting their control software in C1V scammer basement.
Due to I/O wait, the software cannot update electric substations fast enough, which triggers protection shutdown and causes outage.

mizzik · 12:09PM

https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/04/28/spain-portugal-and-parts-of-france-hit-by-massive-power-outage

Nyr · 12:12PM

@Neoon said:
Madrid and Portugal still up here, until now.
Is Mobile still working for you guys?

Very slow, but yes. Not for everyone, some friends are already offline.

Supposedly power is being restored in some parts of the north according to the operator. Zero info from the government.

Amadex · 12:23PM

@yoursunny said:
Power company is hosting their control software in C1V scammer basement.
Due to I/O wait, the software cannot update electric substations fast enough, which triggers protection shutdown and causes outage.

As of February 9th, 2025, C1V hosting has been acquired by Lumanex, a decision that reinforces our commitment to providing reliable, quality hosting

So they are not anymore in the basement, they moved to living room.

rubenmdh · 12:59PM

They just said full power restore will take from 6 to 10 hours. LTE/5G seems to work in some places.

Nyr · 1:11PM

@rubenmdh said:
They just said full power restore will take from 6 to 10 hours. LTE/5G seems to work in some places.

Yes, this is the official info from the national grid operator.

As for the cause, it has been a sudden surge on the demand VS generation, as per the operator, Red Eléctrica Española.

The Spanish power grid already had dire constraints during the last few years given the increase in dependency from renewables, and there have been many forced industry stops for a while, to avoid this... until now.

Nyr · 1:30PM

Power is being restored to parts of Spain. Still not here.

DrNutella · 1:39PM

Hope everyone is ok

Nyr · 3:16PM

Power was restored briefly in my area, but is now gone again. Fiber to the home also down.

4+ hours of outage is crazy, big supermarket chains are closed, rail public transit closed, traffic is a mess with no traffic lights, tunnels in the main Madrid roads are now closed, hospitals in emergency-only mode... interesting day.

ahnlak · 3:34PM

Power was out for about an hour in San Sebastian, mobile was spotty for a little while after but been fine since. Sounds like we got off lightly.

Nyr · 3:57PM

Both power and fiber are back for me, big parts of Spain are still off but being restored apparently.

Apparently this has been caused by a super rare meteorological occurrence? Still not much info.

Chievo · 4:21PM

Com Valenciana location. Just from now we have some electricity.

Chievo · 4:24PM

No phone coverage at all

Chievo · 4:34PM

@Nyr said:
Power was restored briefly in my area, but is now gone again. Fiber to the home also down.

4+ hours of outage is crazy, big supermarket chains are closed, rail public transit closed, traffic is a mess with no traffic lights, tunnels in the main Madrid roads are now closed, hospitals in emergency-only mode... interesting day.

We have survived this as well. Now time to cancel all appointments for tomorrow.

Nyr · 4:37PM

Madrid is still without electricity, as it is a region with a lot of demmand and virtually zero generation I guess it will be the last restored.

Anyone with servers online there is running on diesel at this point.

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