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Nine Days From The Dark: What Sixty Million People Learned About Water, Warmth, And Medicine During Spain's Ten-Hour Blackout
Nine Days From The Dark: What Sixty Million People Learned About Water, Warmth, And Medicine During Spain's Ten-Hour Blackout Authored by John Walter via Substack, At 12:33 on the afternoon of 28 April 2025, mainland Spain and Portugal lost their electricity supply. Red Eléctrica de España, the Spanish transmission operator, logged the loss of about fifteen gigawatts of generation - close to sixty per cent of Spanish demand at that moment - within seconds. Supply was interrupted for roughly ten hours across most of the peninsula and longer in some districts, affecting an estimate