{"id":84549,"date":"2025-05-08T12:04:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T12:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/84549\/"},"modified":"2025-05-08T12:04:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T12:04:08","slug":"canary-islands-power-cuts-la-palma-hit-by-major-outage-world-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/84549\/","title":{"rendered":"Canary Islands power cuts: La Palma hit by major outage | World | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On April 28, much of Spain and parts of Portugal were plunged into darkness during a major power cut.<\/p>\n<p>Cities including Madrid and Lisbon were hit. Public transport was halted, flights delayed, and digital services went down.<\/p>\n<p>Power was gradually restored overnight, but questions still remain over what triggered the collapse of the national grid.<\/p>\n<p>Some sources indicate that the problem may have been triggered by the disconnection of some solar plants in southwest Spain, but the grid would normally be able to balance this out through regulation.<\/p>\n<p>Spain\u2019s Prime Minister Pedro S\u00e1nchez has pledged \u201call necessary measures will be taken\u201d to prevent similar blackouts in future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On April 28, much of Spain and parts of Portugal were plunged into darkness during a major power&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84550,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3045,40728,12,3046,30226,104,40729,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-84549","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-canary-islands","9":"tag-la-palma","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-portugal","12":"tag-power-outage","13":"tag-spain","14":"tag-spain-and-portugal-blackout","15":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114472122024542949","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}