A widespread power outage hit Spain and Portugal, affecting millions of people who live across Europe's Iberian Peninsula.

Power has been restored to tens of millions of people across almost all of Spain and Portugal, but disruptions to transport services were expected to stretch into a second day as questions mount over what caused a massive blackout.

Electricity returned to nearly all of Spain almost 18 hours after a blackout there and in neighboring Portugal. The cause of the outage was unclear.