Africa-Press – Cape verde. The northern part of the island of Fogo has been without electricity for more than 100 hours and the population appeals to Electra for the necessary balance in the distribution and supply of energy.
Several residents of the northern zone, namely the town of Ponta Verde, the second in the municipality of São Filipe, sought communication to express their displeasure with the energy supply company, highlighting that since the night of Sunday, October 29th, all the north zone was left without power, causing huge losses for families and small economic operators.
In the village of Ponta Verde, people with greater wealth resorted to generators to supply energy to avoid greater losses.
The population understands that the problem is caused by a breakdown, but asks the company to cover the north zone with a few hours of energy, similar to what happens in the city of São Filipe and in the municipalities of Santa Catarina and Mosteiros, remembering that the city itself Water supply depends on energy and people have already begun to experience water shortages.
The situation in the supply of electricity has been conditioned since the 29th with the breakdown of the second highest power group at the João Pinto Power Station (São Filipe), thus joining another group of equal power, 1600 kva, which has been inoperative since March. and awaits the arrival of parts to repair it.
In the city of São Filipe, the All Saints holiday was used by operators to remove perishable products due to the lack of power, which in some areas of the city exceeded 48 hours, and the accumulated losses are enormous.
Today the mayors of São Filipe and Mosteiros called on the press to analyze the situation of the interruption in the island’s energy supply. The attempt to hear the mayor of Santa Catarina do Fogo was unsuccessful.
The Central Única do Fogo, which supplies energy to the island’s three municipalities, began operating in November 2015, featuring two groups of generators, with a capacity of 1,600 kva each, one of which is undergoing maintenance and the other suffered technical problems in the early hours of the morning. Monday, 30th.
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