Venezuela: power returns after blackout but normal service may be a long way off

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

Venezuela: power returns after blackout but normal service may be a long way off

• Report finds outage caused by bush fire near substation
• Parts of the country remain without electricity

Joe Parkin Daniels in Caracas
Thu 14 Mar 2019 21.51 GMT

Power has been restored to much of Venezuela, a week after a devastating blackout struck across the country, crippling water supplies, and cutting off telephone and internet services for millions.

But swaths of the country remain without electricity, and experts have warned that normal services may not resume for weeks – or even months.

A new report from the Central University of Venezuela’s faculty of engineering confirmed that the blackout was caused when a bush fire near the Malena substation in eastern Venezuela took out a vital section of the country’s power grid.

The report offered two possible explanations for why the fire had such a devastating impact – both of which imply full supply will not be restored any time soon.

The first is that the fire took out part of the transmission network, which could take up to 60 days to repair.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/14/venezuela-blackout-power-returns

[MRubio]

1. A new report from the Central University of Venezuela's faculty.........

................confirmed that the blackout was caused when a bush fire near the Malena substation in eastern Venezuela took out a vital section of the country’s power grid.

Dayum, as the saying goes here, those guys have las bolas bien puesto.....their balls well-placed, because to go against the regime's stated explanation for the blackout risks a visit from SEBIN and a face that looks like an all-meat pizza.

In the land of tyranny, the truth is treason.

Thanks for posting the article Eugene.