The power outages hit the North and Northeast the hardest, but some areas in the Southeast and Midwest were also affected.
The director general of the National Electricity Agency (Aneel), Sandoval Feitosa, declared that the blackout that occurred this morning, 15, was a “major event”. According to him, the power outage accounted for about 25% of the total system load and as of 10:25 am it had not yet fully normalized.
“Right now, we are experiencing a supply problem in the North and Northeast regions of Brazil (…) The Ministry of Energy has already communicated to the agencies and other agents that it will set up a group to analyze and study the causes of this event, which is a big event,” he said.
The blackout mainly affected the regions of the North and Northeast, but also affected some areas of the Southeast and Midwest of Brazil. The power outage occurred around 8:23 am and the restoration of the supply, according to Feitosa, began around 8:40 am.
According to the National Electricity System Operator (ONS), the body in charge of managing the country’s energy supply, an accident in the operating network of the National Interconnected System caused the interruption of 16,000 MW of load. The agency also reported that by 9:16, it had already managed to restore 6,000 MW of power supply.
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According to Internet users, the national blackout has reached the Federal District and at least 19 states — Acre, Alagoas, Amapá, Amazonas, Bahia, Ceará, Goiás, Maranhão, Mato Grosso do Sul, Minas Gerais, Pará, Paraíba, Pernambuco, Piauí, Rio Grande do Norte, Rio de Janeiro, Santa Catarina, São Paulo and Tocantins.
In some places the light went out for about 30 minutes, in others less. In Pará, for example, residents say the light took even longer to return.
The blackout was reported to have affected subway lines in Belo Horizonte, Salvador, Recife and São Paulo. Residents of Teresina and Belém have reported problems with traffic lights. Students from different cities have also used social networks to show the inconvenience that the lack of electricity has caused in schools.
Source: Terra
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