La Gomera suffers a basic outage of {the electrical} community | Economy | EUROtoday

The island of La Gomera has suffered this Sunday a basic drop within the electrical community on account of a destabilization of one of many mills positioned within the El Palmar thermal energy plant, which has already skilled one other zero power in 2023 after a hearth. The blackout occurred after midday. Shortly later, the Cabildo of La Gomera reported the start of the gradual restoration of {the electrical} community on the island.

The blackout initially affected 15,610 clients, though greater than 4,000 have already recovered provide. After what occurred, as Endesa defined in an announcement, the technicians have activated all doable measures to exchange the producing units, having the ability to get out of the zero scenario “at 17 minutes” and recovering the provision to twenty% of the inhabitants at half-hour.

As for the causes which have brought on this zero power on the island, Endesa factors out that in the mean time “they are unknown” and the electrical energy firm is investigating the explanations that brought on it.

Endesa began two teams on the El Palmar station after the zero recorded at 12:13 p.m., as defined by the Minister of Ecological Transition and Energy of the Government of the Canary Islands, Mariano Hernández Zapata, who added that the corporate has acknowledged that the restoration of provide “will go slowly” to stop the system from “becoming unstable and collapsing again.”

The president of the Canary Islands, Fernando Clavijo, has reported that he has spoken with the Minister for the Ecological Transition, Sara Aagesen, and that the Canary Islands Government is “in permanent contact” with the Cabildo of La Gomera and is “monitoring the situation.”

Also the Minister of Territorial Policy, Ángel Víctor Torres, stories that he stays in touch with Fernando Clavijo and with the president of the Cabildo of La Gomera, Casimiro Curbelo, that “the situation is being restored” and that he hopes to “recover normality as soon as possible.”

La Gomera suffered an power zero in July 2023 for which the Government of the Canary Islands imposed a penalty of 12.1 million euros on the Unión Eléctrica de Canarias Generación (Unelco) for a really severe administrative infraction.