Blackout hits 4 nations in Central America, millions left in the dark

[Guest Indiana]

Tegucigalpa, Honduras: A failure in Central America's electrical grid has left millions of people without power for hours in at least four countries.

Honduras is the country hardest hit by Monday's blackout, with the entirety of its territory and its more than 9 million inhabitants affected.

Leonardo Deras of the state electric company said at a news conference that the problem arose from an overload at a substation on the Caribbean coast.

Salvador Mansell is president of the company responsible for power transmission in Nicaragua. He said the blackout hit the capital, Managua, and the main departments.

There are about 600,000 paying customers for electricity in Nicaragua. Internet service and water distribution in parts of the capital were also knocked out.

https://www.smh.com.au/world/central-america/blackout-hits-4-nations-in-central-america-millions-left-in-dark-20190917-p52s0x.html

[The Librarian]

How long did it take to come back up?

No redundant systems in place?

[Guest Indiana]

Different periods, some areas up to 6 hours 

 

An EOR spokesman told AFP that in El Salvador and Guatemala “the power outage (which occurred at 5:50 p.m. GMT) was brief.”

In the case of Nicaragua, the EOR systems record that 35% of the energy system was recovered four hours after the incident, while Honduras recovered 95% in the same period.

https://ticotimes.net/2019/09/16/system-failure-causes-power-outage-through-much-of-central-america