{"id":7908,"date":"2025-04-28T14:55:53","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T14:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/?p=7908"},"modified":"2025-04-28T14:55:55","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T14:55:55","slug":"millions-without-power-as-outages-hit-spain-portugal-and-parts-of-france-spanish-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/?p=7908","title":{"rendered":"Millions without power as outages hit Spain, Portugal and parts of France, Spanish officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-testid=\"prism-article-body\">\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \"><span class=\"oyrPY qlwaB AGxeB  \">LONDON &#8212; <\/span>Millions of people in Spain, Portugal and parts of France lost power on Monday due to an unknown grid issue, the Spanish government confirmed to ABC News.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Spanish government said it called an emergency crisis meeting to fix the situation as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Authorities, meanwhile, asked people to stay at home and to avoid circulating, while emergency generators were also being put in place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Red El\u00e9ctrica, the corporation that operates the national electricity grid in Spain, confirmed power outages across the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;Plans to restore the electricity supply have been activated in collaboration with companies in the sector following the zero that occurred in the peninsular system,&#8221; it wrote in a post to X. &#8220;The causes are being analyzed and all resources are being dedicated to solving it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">A later post said power was recovered in some areas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \"><em class=\" \">This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON &#8212; Millions of people in Spain, Portugal and parts of France lost power on Monday due to an unknown grid issue, the Spanish government confirmed to ABC News. The Spanish government said it called an emergency crisis meeting to fix the situation as soon as possible. Authorities, meanwhile, asked people to stay at home [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7909,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7908"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7910,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7908\/revisions\/7910"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}