By: Real America News Updated 22 Jun 2022, 04: 54 pm EDT
A problem in the transmission network left at least 1.3 million people in the states of Campeche, Quintana Roo and Yucatán without electricity, in the Mexican Caribbean, reported this Wednesday the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE).
“Among the 08: 32 Y 08: 40 hours (14: 32 Y 14: 40 GMT) six high voltage lines went out of operation, which affected 1.3 million users in the states of Campeche, Quintana Roo and Yucatán. They represent 62% of the total users in that region,” the state-owned company said in a brief statement.
He specified that the cause of the failure was an accident involving a CFE worker who was performing maintenance on one of the lines of high tension who “has already been transferred to receive medical attention and is reported stable”.
The CFE assured that the service will be restored gradually during the rest of the day.
The blackout left without light for several hours almost 21,000 users in Campeche, whose service, as reported by the Commission, had already been fully restored.
For its part, in Quintana Roo, a little more than 619,000 users were affected; while in Yucatan, almost 682,000 inhabitants were left without electricity service.
The CFE highlighted that in in the case of Quintana Roo, the service had already been restored in 43%; while in Yucatan the light returned to 28% of those affected.
“So far they have been restored 479,788 users, which represents the 36 % of the total affected”, he specified.
So far in the administration of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, this is the third massive blackout recorded in the country.
The 28 December 2020, a failure in a transmission line of the CFE caused a blackout that left 22 without electricity .3 million inhabitants in the country.
A day later, President López Obrador assured that a failure of these characteristics would not happen again.
However, in February 2021 other electrical failure due at low temperatures left without light at least 400,000 people from the states of Nuevo León, Tamaulipas, Coahuila and Chihuahua, in the north of the Mexican territory.
Andrés Manuel López Obrador has promised on multiple occasions to “rescue” the CFE , which he considers was “plundered” in past governments, which has also led him to directly confront the private electricity generating companies whom he has branded as corrupt.
In addition, he presented a controversial initiative to reform the Law of the Electricity Industry that sought to strengthen the CFE and would affect, in particular, renewable generators, although the initiative was stopped in the Mexican Congress.
With information from Efe.
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