La Palma restores power after nearly four-hour island-wide outage
La Palma, Canary Islands – Power has been fully restored to the island of La Palma at 10:26 AM local time on Monday, following a complete power outage that affected 50,508 customers for three hours and 48 minutes. The incident has highlighted structural deficiencies in the island’s electrical system, particularly in generation, transmission, and distribution.
The cause of the outage is still under investigation, but it may be linked to a severe storm that impacted the island overnight. The blackout occurred after all thermal generation groups supplying the island’s electrical demand disconnected.
Efforts to restore power began with the progressive connection of generation groups at the Los Guinchos power plant, although initial problems were encountered when starting some units.
The electricity supply was finally restored across the entire island at 10:26 AM, almost four hours after the initial blackout. This marks the second island-wide power outage La Palma has experienced in less than a year and a half.
Canary Islands’ Minister for Ecological Transition and Energy, Mariano Hernández Zapata, warned that the island’s electrical infrastructure suffers from significant problems in generation, transmission, and distribution. He assured that the regional government is working to implement solutions that strengthen supply security and prevent future incidents.
Zapata reiterated that the Canary Islands government had previously flagged the deficiencies in La Palma’s electrical system. Some proposed solutions are already underway, while others require longer execution times.
The ministry is maintaining constant contact with Endesa and Red Eléctrica de España (REE) to investigate the causes of the incident and monitor the situation.
The previous island-wide blackout occurred on June 10, 2025, when an incident at the Los Guinchos power plant left 50,289 customers without power for approximately three hours.
The outage on Monday coincided with heavy rainfall and stormy weather, with the Aemet weather station at the island’s airport recording 77.5 liters per square meter of accumulated precipitation.
The Canary Islands government elevated the alert level for rainfall in La Palma to maximum and declared the alert status of the Canary Islands Territorial Emergency Protection Civil Plan (Plateca) due to the general electrical system failure.
Authorities and power companies are monitoring the situation to determine the causes of the failures and assess the necessary actions to reinforce the island’s power supply security.
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