That conclusion has been supported by the operator of Spain’s national grid, Red Eléctrica, which has located where outages began on Monday. Two separate incidents of power outages led to instability in the grid leading to a “breakdown in interconnections with France,” leaving the Iberian grid isolated.

The blackout that engulfed the Iberian Peninsula on Monday was chaotic and stressful for many. But it had a silver lining.

Power began returning to households in Spain and neighbouring Portugal, hours after cities across the Iberian Peninsula were plunged into darkness in one of Europe's most severe blackouts.Investigators are still looking into the cause of the blackout which remains unclear,