As clean energy scales up, experts say outdated grids and poor planning are turning local outages into global wake-up calls.

Spain, Portugal, France and Andorra suffered power outages on April 28, but not Belgium, Greece and the Netherlands, contrary to online claims.

Spain and Portugal are connected to Europe's main electric grid through France. Spain's grid operator on Tuesday said that the sudden drop in power caused an interconnector between Spain and ...

At that time the price of electricity on the official market was in the negative at around -1€/MWh. At these prices Spain was exporting electricity to Morocco, Portugal, and even France.

Dozens of the country's mainland regions are currently under the second-highest alert as the heatwave continues.