Portugal's power exchanges with Spain remain suspended amid blackout probe

3/5/2025 7:21

Portugal is supplying electricity to clients from its own sources as power exchanges with Spain remain suspended amid an inquiry into the causes of a blackout earlier this week, the energy minister said on Friday.



Spain suffered a catastrophic outage in its electricity grid on Monday, which also provoked an outage across Portugal which was importing cheaper renewable energy from its neighbour.



"For now, we continue without exchanging electricity with Spain as a precaution, showing the independence we have at the moment," acting Energy Minister Maria da Graca Carvalho told reporters after an online meeting with her Spanish counterpart Sara Aagesen.



"It will take some time to understand exactly what happened," she said, without saying when power exchanges could be resumed, although physical interconnections between the two countries have already been re-established.