Trains, traffic lights, card payments, and phone networks have been hit by the massive outages across both countries.

By Emma Pinedo, Catarina Demony and David Latona MADRID/LISBON (Reuters) -Power started returning to parts of the Iberian peninsula late on Monday after a huge outage brought most of Spain and Portugal to a standstill,

It is rare to have such a widespread outage across the Iberian Peninsula, with a combined population of about 60 million people.