At 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday, 3.2 million users of the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) remained without electricity service in 26 states of the country, which represents less than eight percent of the total, the company reported in a release.
He said that he maintains close coordination with the National Center for Energy Control (Cenace) to maintain the stability of the electrical system and avoid further damage, as well as to attend to the restoration activities that it instructs.
He explained that the interruptions to the electricity supply programmed by Cenace in the states of Mexico, Aguascalientes, Colima, Guanajuato, Guerrero, Jalisco, Michoacán, Nayarit, Puebla, Querétaro, San Luis Potosí and Zacatecas for tonight they are to maintain the stability of the National Electric System (SEN).
“These are random, rotating load outages. There is no risk of massive blackouts as has been erroneously reported in some media. The Federal Electricity Commission has made all its generation plants available to Cenace to achieve the load-generation balance, thus reducing load shots, ”he indicated.
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He mentioned that the cuts or load shots are a disconnection of the electricity supply that is carried out from the Control Centers with the purpose of maintaining stability in the Electric System in some region of the country and avoiding a collapse.
These scheduled and controlled cuts are instructed by Cenace, responsible for guaranteeing the stability of the National Electric System, and the CFE executes them in a staggered manner and in blocks so that users do not remain for long periods without electricity service.
The CFE stressed that priority services such as hospitals, clinics, water systems and supermarkets will have normal electricity supply.
Due to adverse weather conditions in the north of the country, particularly those adjacent to Texas, natural gas, which is the input to generate energy, has stopped being received. For this reason, the balance between load and generation has been affected, and scheduled and controlled power cuts are applied to avoid a major collapse or blackout at peak demand hours. Therefore, there is no risk of massive blackouts.
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