Event anniversary

2025 Iberian Peninsula blackout

Took place on April 28, 2025

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The 2nd anniversary falls on April 28, 2027, in 185 days.

On Monday, 28 April 2025, at 12:33 CEST (11:33 WEST; 10:33 UTC), a major power blackout occurred across the Iberian Peninsula affecting mainland Portugal and peninsular Spain, where electric power was interrupted for about ten hours in most of the Peninsula and longer in some areas.

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