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Civil Protection has warned residents of Pedrógão Grande about the danger of electrocution following damage to the local electricity network; people are advised to avoid downed power lines and damaged electrical equipment until repairs are completed.
The electricity supply in the municipality of Caldas da Rainha remained uninterrupted today, E‑Redes said, after the repair of a very high‑voltage pole, the City Council said; it had previously announced a suspension of the service.
E-Redes reported today an increase in the number of new faults on the national electricity network due to worsening weather conditions overnight; at 08:00, 161,000 customers were without power.
Ana Suspiro, a journalist at Observador, explains the statements by the president of E-Redes and the difficulty of restoring the entire electricity network.
There is no record of a weather event so destructive to the electricity network. More than 5,000 kilometres of medium-, high- and extra-high-voltage lines and hundreds of electricity poles were affected.
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.
Around 384,000 E-Redes customers were still without an electricity supply by 18:30 today in mainland Portugal, following damage to the power network caused by Storm Kristin, the company said.
Kristin knocked down 61 very-high-voltage poles, causing damage to roughly 7% of the country's electricity network.
