A power outage hit several areas of the Spanish island of La Palma in the Canary Islands on Thursday, just a week after national outages.
Local media reported that thousands of locals and holidaymakers across the island were left without power for nearly two hours after a blackout occurred at around 10am local time.
The affected areas included Los Llanos de Aridane, Breña Alta, Santa Cruz de La Palma and Fuencaliente.
More than twenty towns were left without in the dark in these areas, stretching from north to south of the island, before Endesa and Red Eléctrica begun working on restoring power.
Javier Llamas, the mayor of the town of Aridane, told a local radio station at around midday that: ‘More than half of the power outage has already been restored.’
Local media reports explained how the power outage could potentially affect up to 30,000 people in La Palma.
‘The source is unknown for now, but everything points to a problem at the Los Guinchos power plant,’ La Radio Canaria said.
La Palma Island Council urged residents to remain calm, avoid overwhelming emergency services, call 112 only if absolutely necessary, and prioritise saving battery life on mobile devices.
The Los Guinchos power plant supplies 90 percent of the electricity on the Canary Island of La Palma, which belongs to Spain
Local media reported that thousands of locals and holidaymakers across La Palma (pictured) were left without power for nearly two hours after a blackout occurred at around 10am local time
La Palma (pictured) was not affected by the massive blackout that hit most of Spain and Portugal, including their capitals, Madrid and Lisbon, on April 28
They also recommended that once power was restored, people should avoid turning on their electronic devices at the same time to avoid overwhelming the power grid.
The island’s Energy Minister, Fernando González, expressed his concern over the recurrence of these incidents, stating that ‘the blackouts cause serious harm, especially to the most vulnerable sectors and to companies whose production is disrupted.’
For this reason, La Palma council has called for ‘rigorous monitoring’ of electrical infrastructure, as well as ‘exhaustive inspections’ to detect possible deficiencies.
La Palma was not affected by the massive blackout that hit most of Spain and Portugal, including their capitals, Madrid and Lisbon, on April 28.
Airports were disabled, and shops and offices were left in the dark.
Traffic was gridlocked, flights were grounded, and trains were suspended while people waited to be rescued from elevators and were left without water supplies.
Whole cities were cut off with mobile networks, Wi-Fi, ATMs and card machines inoperative during the disruption, which began around 12.30pm last Monday.
Renfe, the national rail operator in Spain, confirmed the outage and its impact in a statement at the time.
A view shows a dark metro station in Madrid during a widespread power outage that struck Spain and Portugal last week
People get out of subway cars at Baixo-Chiado station after the blackout that occurs in the morning on April 28, 2025
Shoppers at a Spanish supermarket fill their baskets by torch light amid the blackout
People with their luggage wait outside Humberto Delgado airport following a general electricity shutdown in Lisbon on April 28, 2025
‘At 12:30 p.m., the entire national electricity grid was cut off. Trains stopped and there were no departures at any station,’ the statement said.
By 7am local time on April 29, more than 99 per cent of energy demand in Spain had been restored, the country’s electricity operator Red Eléctrica said.
Portuguese grid operator REN said the following morning all the 89 power substations had been back online since late the night before and power had been restored to all 6.4million customers.
‘We have never had a complete collapse of the system,’ Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said in a televised address following the chaos.
He described the problem in the European grid as a ‘strong oscillation’ and added that the cause was still being determined.
Sanchez asked the public to refrain from speculation and said no theory about the cause of the outage had been discarded.
He also thanked the governments of France and Morocco where energy was being pulled from to restore power to north and southern Spain.
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