International experts noted that while shared electricity grids allow countries to use clean energy more efficiently, they also make the entire system more vulnerable.
Later, Portuguese Prime Minister Luis Montenegro said that the outage began in Spain and may have been caused by a rare atmospheric event.
Spain’s national grid operator, Red Electrica, said it started bringing back power in the north and south of the country.
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