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The Vice-President of the Order of Engineers warns that companies' contingency plans are not prepared for this type of event. Jorge Liça emphasises that the network's response has been rapid.
As of 17:00, E-REDES, the Portuguese electricity distribution operator, says it has not yet completed a full evaluation of the damage; inspections and assessments are still ongoing.
Depression Kristin caused significant damage to the electricity distribution infrastructure in several regions of the country. E-Redes admits it may make sense to replace overhead networks with underground ones — more expensive — in some locations, but the investment must be 'balanced'. At 6am on Wednesday there was a peak of around 1 million ...
The storm knocked down 61 very-high-voltage pylons and damaged others. REN expects full restoration to take 'a few weeks', and says it has 'all teams available' for the work.
The passage of Storm Kristin across Portugal in the early hours of 27 January put a total of 774 kilometres of REN's extra-high-voltage lines out of service, which corresponds to 7% of the entire National Electricity Transmission Network, says the company that holds the concession for the networks...
The European Commission said on Wednesday that it is ready to provide assistance and is in 'close contact' with the authorities in Portugal and with the European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity due to the outages caused by the storm. 'Some areas of Portugal are without power (electricity) due to the storm that is being felt. ...
REN, the national electricity network operator, is working to repair and restore normal operation of high-voltage transmission lines serving the Zêzere River area, Batalha and Rio Maior following incidents or disruptions.
Higher electricity consumption due to the cold is overloading the electricity grid. The president of the Union of Parishes of Alverca do Ribatejo and Sobralinho is calling for a swift solution.
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 ...
