{"id":31788,"date":"2024-06-19T18:11:38","date_gmt":"2024-06-19T22:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/ecuador-hit-by-nationwide-blackout\/19\/06\/2024\/"},"modified":"2024-06-19T18:11:38","modified_gmt":"2024-06-19T22:11:38","slug":"ecuador-hit-by-nationwide-blackout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/ecuador-hit-by-nationwide-blackout\/19\/06\/2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Ecuador Hit by Nationwide Blackout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ecuador was plunged into a nationwide blackout on Wednesday afternoon, the country\u2019s public work minister said, blaming the emergency on a failure of a key transmission line.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The minister, Roberto Luque, said <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RobertoLuqueN\/status\/1803531032978661816\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in a statement on X<\/a> that he had received a report from the national electricity operator, CENACE, about \u201ca failure in the transmission line that caused a cascade disconnection, so there is no energy service nationwide.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He said the authorities were working to resolve the outage \u201cas quickly as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The South American country of 18 million people has been struggling with an energy crisis for several years. Failing infrastructure, a lack of maintenance and a dependence on imported energy have all contributed to rolling blackouts \u2014 though none have been as widespread as this one.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Around 3:15 p.m. Wednesday, the majority of Ecuadoreans found themselves without power.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Most of the country\u2019s energy comes from neighboring Colombia, a country that has struggled to generate enough power for its own domestic consumption.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A $2.25 billion Chinese-built hydroelectric power plant, the Coca Codo Sinclair Dam, was supposed to help solve Ecuador\u2019s problem. Located on the Coca River in the province of Napo, 62 miles east of Quito, the capital, it is the largest energy project in Ecuador.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/06\/19\/world\/americas\/ecuador-nationwide-blackout.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ecuador was plunged into a nationwide blackout on Wednesday afternoon, the country&rsquo;s public work minister said, blaming the emergency on a failure<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/ecuador-hit-by-nationwide-blackout\/19\/06\/2024\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31788"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}