The city of Arrecife has suffered a temporary power outage. This was reported by the Lanzarote Emergency Security Consortium.
This incident, which lasted about ten minutes, was resolved at 6:17 p.m. According to the causes reported by the Consortium, it was caused by an underground fault in a high-voltage cable.
As La Voz has been able to verify through information from Red Eléctrica Española, in the section between 6:05 p.m. and 6:10 p.m., consumption was recorded two points above what was expected, but below the kilowatts programmed by the company. In addition to this, this brief outage caused a slight drop, nothing compared to the energy zero suffered this past Monday, in the consumption scale that was occurring today, in sections above what was expected.
The vice president of Femete and president of the Business Association of Electrical Installations and Telecommunications Infrastructures (Asinelte), Juan Alberto Gutiérrez, warned that, despite having been spared from the blackout, the Canarian energy system is "weak, fragile, very obsolete and one of the most polluting in the European Union."
This situation occurs after almost the entire country and Portugal, with the exception of the Canary Islands, the Balearic Islands, and Ceuta and Melilla, suffered a power outage that generated chaos in the Iberian Peninsula.
