Spain gradually restoring power after outage on Canaries' La Palma
The power cut on the archipelago's third-smallest island was caused by the failure of a generator at the Los Guinchos power plant in eastern La Palma, the regional government said in a statement, citing utility company Endesa.
The outage follows a mass blackout across most of Spain and Portugal on April 28 that caused gridlock across cities and left thousands of people stranded on trains or stuck in elevators.
The Canary blackout occurred at 5:30 p.m. (1630 GMT), RTVE reported.
Redeia said it had reestablished 6.2 megawatts on La Palma by 7:10 p.m.
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