Ecuador suffers nationwide power outage due to transmission failure

A failure in an energy transmission line produced an unexpected blackout throughout Ecuador on Wednesday, the government reported, days after announcing that there would be new power outages in the country due to production problems.

The Minister of Energy of Ecuador, Roberto Luque, explained in a message on the social network account

“We are concentrating all our efforts on solving the problem as quickly as possible,” he added.

The outage left the nation of about 18 million people without power, government officials said.

In some sectors of the country the outage lasted 20 minutes, but media outlets and social media users reported that the problem remained in most cities and even in hospital areas.

Since last year, Ecuador has been facing an electricity generation crisis that led to rationing throughout the country and that in April caused Power outages scheduled by the government of President Daniel Noboa between 8 and 12 hours a day during school hours and gradually decreased.

Due to the strong winter stormthe Coca Codo and San Francisco hydroelectric plants paralyzed their activities because the reservoirs that supply them brought in a large amount of waste.

[Con información de Reuters y AP]

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