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On this day last year, all of Portugal and Spain were plunged into darkness. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT One year on, a Portuguese parliamentary working group has published its final report on the blackout, recommending sweeping changes to how the country handles power grid failures — and acknowledging that the government's response in the first minutes was guided by "intuition" rather than any established plan. The report, presented on Tuesday, proposes that hospitals, health centres, nursing