It is the fourth blackout in just over a month

The palm has run out of light. The entire island went to energy zero on Tuesday at 17:32. Two hours later, 50,289 users still without electricity supply because of a breakdown.

Energy zero. The origin of the total black in La Palma this June 10 was the “shot of a generation turbine” at the Central de los Guinchos, in Breña Alta, according to an Endesa statement.

The failure caused the complete collapse of the system, which as we all know since the end of April It is known as an “energy zero”. The island still had no supply two hours later, according to The breakdown map of the distributor.

Red Electric is Informing live of the advances in the replacement of the supply: 6.2 megawatts of the demand had been replaced at 20:10.

Emergency Plan. Since there could be people trapped in elevators and others who depend on electricity, the Canary Islands government has activated The “Emergency Plan of the Canary Islands” (Platca) in alert situation.

Meanwhile, technicians work at the start of the generation, still without a clear forecast for the complete restoration of the service.

Fourth blackout. While it is the first that affects the more than 50,000 palm supplies, this is the fourth big blackout suffered by the island in just over a month. The most popular until now occurred on May 8, when a ruling in a substation of the same central of the Guinchos left 19,526 customers without light for almost two hours.

Without light on the beautiful island. Insular electrical systems such as Palma are more vulnerable because they are not interconnected with large continental networks, so a serious failure in a main generation plant, as has happened today in the Guinchos, can more easily cause the collapse of the entire network.

But with the energy zero as a drop that fills the glass, the situation has revealed the fragility of the island’s electrical infrastructure. After four blackouts, the question is what structural measures to take to guarantee the stability of the service.

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