LatinNews Daily - 17 May 2024

*Mauricio Cuéllar, the deputy manager of operations and dispatch at Mexico’s national grid operator (Cenace), has stated that blackouts between 7 and 9 May affected some 2.5m users – only 5% of the total. “In total we have almost 49m users and a little more than 2.5m users were affected at the most in these interruptions; that is to say, 95, 97% of the time we had total availability of the national electric system,” he said in a press conference. Cuéllar noted that the electricity supply had been interrupted on a rotating and intermittent basis for average periods of 30 minutes due to the emergencies declared by Cenace because of an imbalance between supply and the demand generated by the heat. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s government has sought to downplay the severity of the blackouts that afflicted multiple states earlier this month in the midst of a heatwave.

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