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Around 116,000 E-Redes customers remained without electricity supply in continental Portugal at 12:00 today, following damage caused by the low-pressure system Kristin to the power grid, the company said.
The Leiria district is the most affected, with 83,000 customers without electricity, followed by Santarém with 19,000 customers.
Most of the affected customers are in Leiria.
E-Redes highlights that in Leiria 99,000 customers were still without power, in Santarém 23,000 and in Castelo Branco 9,000.
Rádio Observador accompanied an E-Redes operation in Alburitel, Ourém. The company's president, José Ferrari Careto, explains what is being done to repair faults on the network.
An intervention by E-Redes at a very-high-voltage substation forced a power cut today in the municipality of Caldas da Rainha, in the district of Leiria, the municipality said after being notified by the company.
As of 03:00, nearly 160,000 customers are still without electricity, E-Redes reports.
E-Redes mobilised 450 generators to the area affected by the Kristin depression, which caused power cuts, the company's chairman of the board, José Ferrari Careto, said today.
The number of affected customers continues to fall as E‑Redes carries out interventions on the ground.
The council also asks residents to notify E-Redes if their homes still lack electricity when supply has already been restored in their area.
Thousands of people remain without electricity and are relying on generators to provide lighting. E-Redes expects to reinforce support with more equipment sent from Spain and France. The situation could persist for weeks.
Around 180,000 E-Redes customers were still without electricity today at 08:00 in mainland Portugal, most in the Leiria area, following the depression 'Kristin' in the early hours of last Wednesday.
Around 198,000 E-Redes customers remained without power today at 13:00 in mainland Portugal, most of them in the Leiria area, following Depression Kristin in the early hours of Wednesday.
Compared with the tally published by E-Redes on Friday at 22:00, there are now 23,000 more customers with electricity.
Around 211,000 E-Redes customers were still without electricity at 06:00 today in mainland Portugal, mostly in the Leiria area, following Storm Kristin in the early hours of Wednesday.
Around 234,000 E-Redes customers remained without electricity supply in mainland Portugal at 22:00 today, following damage to the power grid caused by the depression Kristin, the company said.
The president of E-redes says around 50 high-voltage substations and 700 kilometres of network were destroyed. Meanwhile, the President of the Republic considers the reconstruction period will be long.
The majority of customers, around 209,000, are located in the district of Leiria.
The Leiria district remained the most affected area, with around 221,000 customers affected.
Some homes already have electricity, but they are only being supplied by the mobile units connected to the transformer substations that E-Redes is installing.
In an update issued at 15:30 on Thursday, E-Redes reported that 400,000 customers — households and businesses — were still without access to electricity. More precisely, 408,000 customers remained without power, of whom 290,000 were in the District of Leiria and 118,000 in the rest of the mainland, with the highest incidence in the districts ...
At the moment there are still 400,000 supply points without electricity, but José Ferrari Careto, director of E-Redes, expects the situation to change in the coming hours. Also, Montenegro is visiting Leiria.
Around 1,700 customers were without electricity at 16:00 due to adverse weather conditions that occurred overnight, a decrease compared with E‑Redes' previous tally, according to the company.
Ten thousand customers, mostly in the central and northern coastal regions, were without electricity at 11.30 am today, with more than 400 operational personnel working for network provider E-Redes mobilised The post 10,000 households without electricity in north and centre appeared first on Portugal Resident.
At one point there were nearly 4,000 homes without electricity, but the company is managing to normalise the situation. Also, João Cotrim de Figueiredo announced he will launch a civic movement.
Almada City Council says it has carried out the procedure to increase the electrical supply capacity and is now only waiting for E-Redes to implement it.
Power was out “for several hours and into the night.” E-Redes acknowledges difficulties in repairing faults and, in the case of Colares, cites rain and fog as causes for the delay in resolving the problem.
The fire was quickly extinguished and an E-Redes crew was mobilised.
The chairman of E-Redes' board of directors, José Ferrari Careto, says that if management of the low-voltage network had been separated from the other voltage levels, responding to the blackout would have been more difficult. This option had already been on the table given the conditions under which the last Socialist government ...
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