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☆ Ecuador hit by a nationwide blackout, says government official
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-19 | by ( Abel Alvarado | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: 1 min

CNN —Ecuador was hit with a nationwide blackout on Wednesday, according to the country’s Public Infrastructure Minister Roberto Luque, who said a transmission line failure caused a “cascade disconnection.”“The immediate report that we received from the CENACE (National Center of Energy Control) is that there is a failure in the transmission line that caused a cascade disconnection, so there is no energy service on a national scale,” Luque wrote on X. “We are concentrating all our efforts on resolving the problem as quickly as possible,” he added. This is a developing story and will be updated.

Persons: Roberto Luque, ” Luque Organizations: CNN, country’s Public Infrastructure, National Center of Energy Locations: Ecuador

☆ Ecuador Hit by Nationwide Blackout
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-19 | by ( José María León Cabrera | Genevieve Glatsky | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Ecuador was plunged into a nationwide blackout on Wednesday afternoon, and the country’s public works minister blamed the emergency on a failure of a key transmission line. The minister, Roberto Luque, said in a statement on X that he had received a report from the national electricity operator, CENACE, about “a failure in the transmission line that caused a cascade disconnection, so there is no energy service nationwide.”He said the authorities were working to resolve the outage “as quickly as possible.” Within hours, power had begun to return to some parts of Quito, the capital. The South American country of 18 million people has been struggling with an energy crisis for several years. Failing infrastructure, a lack of maintenance and a dependence on imported energy have all contributed to rolling blackouts — though none have been as widespread as this one.

Persons: Roberto Luque Locations: Ecuador, Quito

There were rolling blackouts in multiple cities across Mexico on Tuesday, as people in several states reeled from soaring temperatures and the national energy authority briefly declared a state of emergency. A heat wave has scorched Mexico in recent days, bringing temperatures in multiple states into the triple digits. Mexico City on Tuesday reached a high of 92 degrees Fahrenheit, the hottest temperature recorded there on May 7 in over 20 years. Mexico’s energy authority, Cenace, announced a state of emergency for the national grid early Tuesday evening, meaning that available power had dropped below adequate levels. But local news media outlets reported on blackouts in municipalities across the country throughout the evening.

Locations: Mexico, Mexico City

[1/2] A man watches television while cooling himself with an electric ventilator as temperatures rise during an unusual heat wave, in Monterrey, Mexico June 15, 2023. On Wednesday, daily demand was projected to peak even higher at 51,782 megawatts per hour, according to Cenace data. Meanwhile, neighboring Texas urged power conservation after the grid operator on Tuesday evening issued a warning for "projected reserve capacity shortage". In Michoacan state, one town had been without electricity for several days, after an energy transmitter exploded. The heat wave in Mexico is forecast to continue for several more days.

Persons: Daniel Becerril, Cenace, Jorge Musalem, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, Isabel Woodford, Adriana Barrera, Lisa Shumaker Organizations: REUTERS, MEXICO CITY, National Center for Energy Control, Twitter, Local, CFE, Thomson Locations: Monterrey, Mexico, MEXICO, Texas, Michoacan

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