Europe

On this day last year, all of Portugal and Spain were plunged into darkness. One year on, a Portuguese parliamentary working group has published its final report on the blackout, recommending sweeping changes to how the country handles power grid failures — and acknowledging that the government’s response in the first minutes was guided by “intuition” rather than any established plan. The report, presented on Tuesday, proposes that hospitals, health centres, nursing homes and emergency services be required to maintain a minimum of 72 hours of energy autonomy, with all other critical infrastructure required to sustain at least 24 hours.…

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