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Colombia and Peru are supplying electricity to their neighbor Ecuadorwhich is suffering an energy crisis due to a drought that affects strategic water production, the Ecuadorian president reported Wednesday, Guilherme Lasso.
The president highlighted through his account on X, formerly Twitter, that since Tuesday the country has received “in Peru: between 30 It is 35 MW daily up to a maximum of 50 MW, which is the grid capacity streaming”.
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Lasso added that Colombiawhere do I travel for end of October in search of help to face the energy crisis, supply between 350 for 450MW.
Ecuador It’s been rationed for almost two weeks energy electricity for up to four hours a day before deficit caused by low flows of the rivers that feed for several hydroelectric plants.
The energy crisis has already left losses of around 400 million dollars in the country’s commercial sector, according to the Quito Chamber of Commerce.
Lasso highlighted that there is a “improvement in hydrological conditions” due to the onset of rain in the southern mountains It is that the situation be evaluated to determine the reduction or end of rationing.
In October, Ecuador -with 16.9 million inhabitants- declared the electricity sector in an emergency situation after Colombia will limit the sale of energy.
“We are going through the worst dry of the last 50 years, especially in the eastern region”then expressed the minister of EnergyFernando Santos.
Low flows in rivers in the Amazon region, where most hydroelectric plants are located, It is a delay in the arrival of the rainy season due to the impact of El Niño phenomenon affected the Ecuadorian electricity sector.
Source: Elcomercio
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