Blackout cuts power to almost all of Chile
A transmission fault left over 90% of Chile's population without power, halting the Santiago Metro and disrupting airports and telecoms.
- Service
- Chile power grid
- Date
- 25 February 2025
- Cause
- Power / grid
- Duration
- Not stated or multi-day
- Status
- resolved
- Severity
- critical
- Region
- Global
- Source
- Wikipedia ↗
Cite this
Nuffield Consulting, “Blackout cuts power to almost all of Chile”, The Daily Tech Wire outage & breach log, 25 Feb 2025. https://techwire.nuffieldconsulting.com/incidents/2025-02-25-chile-power-grid-outage/ (retrieved 15 Nov 2026).
This entry summarises public reporting. Please also cite the original source: Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Chile_blackout.
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