There’s still no official explanation for the blackout in Spain, Portugal, and parts of southern France—but experts point to the makeup of the Iberian peninsula’s power grid.

The hunt has begun for the cause of a massive blackout across Spain, Portugal and parts of France that halted trains, bank machines and traffic lights, in one of Europe's biggest ever power system collapses.

Millions were plunged into darkness in Europe on Monday as a massive power outage impacted parts of Spain, France and Portugal. The blackout wreaked havoc on travel across the three countries, and the impacts extended beyond there,