Spain and Portugal’s Massive Blackout: What Happened?

Lesson overview

Was it the weather, a technical failure, or a cyberattack? Weeks after a blackout knocked out power across Spain and Portugal on April 28, 2025, experts still can’t agree on what actually caused it. This power outage esl lesson uses that real, unresolved mystery, hospitals running on backup generators, traffic lights dark for hours, millions offline, to build emergency vocabulary around grids and restoration. Students debate the competing theories themselves, then imagine how their own city would actually handle the same crisis.