In a post on X, Ecuador's Minister of Public Works, Roberto Luque, revealed that the nationwide power blackout, which plunged the country into darkness, was due to a failure in the transmission line.
On Wednesday afternoon, a national power outage occurred in Ecuador, leaving 17 million people without electricity. Authorities are attempting to fix the malfunctioning transmission line that caused the outage.
"The immediate report that we received from the CENACE (National Center of Energy Control) is that there is a failure in the transmission line that caused a cascade disconnection, so there is no energy service on a national scale," Roberto Luque, the minister of public works, wrote on X.
Luque continued, "We are concentrating all our efforts on resolving the problem as quickly as possible."
A significant portion of the country's subway system is immobilized as a result of the blackout. Major cities' hospitals are reportedly without electricity. This occurred mon...
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