SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, 27 Sep. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The company Endesa plans to recover the entire electricity supply in the Canary Islands on Tuesday afternoon or throughout Wednesday, given that the low-voltage faults have already been considered controlled and now all efforts are focused on medium-voltage faults.
Some 2,900 customers are still without electricity, almost all on the island of Gran Canaria and in the municipalities of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Telde and San Bartolomé de Tirajana, areas most affected by the passage of the subtropical storm ‘Hermine’, Javier details. Martell Vallés, responsible for Operation and Maintenance at Endesa Distribución.
The company has deployed a team of some 200 people who have been working uninterruptedly for more than 48 hours to replenish the supply, with the handicap that the rains continue and there are transformer centers that have been flooded and roads that prevent the correct transit of vehicles.
Martell has highlighted that the humidity and leaks do not help to replenish the supply safely and maintains that this episode of rains “is not remembered” in the archipelago due to its “intensity and duration” for two days in a row.
This has led to a large number of breakdowns and very “scattered” throughout the archipelago – there have been up to 270 incidents -, he indicated.
