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Ecuador: Energy crisis worsens with daily 10-hour power outages nationwide
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10/14/2024
In Ecuador, citizens are dissatisfied with the ongoing energy crisis that has brought about increasingly long power cuts. From Quito, our correspondent Elena Rodriguez gives us more information.
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In Ecuador, citizens showed their dissatisfaction with the ongoing energy crisis that has brought
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about increasingly long power cuts.
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From Quito, our correspondent Elena Rodriguez, with the daily Dictos.
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Hello colleagues, what a pleasure to greet you.
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Greetings also to our audience in Latin America and the world.
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We are with you from Quito, the capital of Ecuadorians, to inform you that the energy
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crisis is worsening.
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It is critical, said the Minister of Energy and Mines, Inés Manzano, referring precisely
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to the power cuts that Ecuadorians have to suffer for about 10 hours a day throughout
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the country.
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We must say that approximately a couple of months ago, in this Andean nation, there were
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outages of up to 14 hours a day.
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Those could happen again now, since it still hasn't rained in the country.
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That is the reason why the government claims this energy crisis is happening.
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However, what they don't say is that there has not been a proper maintenance of the hydroelectric
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power plants.
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We must also point out that during the weekend, one of the main power plants, the Masada power
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plant, stopped operating, which has led to the 10-hour power outages.
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The businesses and industrial sectors calculate that for each hour of blackout, Ecuador loses
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around 12 million dollars.
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So, as a consequence, they estimate that there will soon be unemployment and that, of course,
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could also result in an economic crisis.
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There is uncertainty.
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There is uneasiness among citizens.
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Ecuadorians cannot work properly or do their daily tasks normally.
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There is little hope that the situation can improve, since rains are not being forecast
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in the near future, as authorities explain that drought could go on for as far as April
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2025.
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