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Cyber-attack ruled out as cause of Iberian peninsula blackout
The Guardian
|June 18, 2025
The unprecedented blackout that brought the Iberian peninsula to a standstill at the end of April was caused by surging voltages triggering "a chain reaction of disconnections", an expert report commissioned by the Spanish government has found.
Spain's environment minister, Sara Aagesen, yesterday ruled out a cyber-attack, saying the blackout was due to a "multifactorial" system failure caused by the network's inability to control grid voltage.
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