Due to a PREPA outage, the Carolina, Trujillo Alto, San Juan and Guaynabo sectors are without electricity

A failure in the power lines running between the transmission centers of Sabana Llana and Monacillos de la Authority for electricity (AEE) left more than 10,000 subscribers from the Carolina, Trujillo Alto, San Juan and Guaynabo sectors without electricity this morning.

The Deputy Director of Operations of the public company, Fernando Padilla, indicated The new day that so far the reason for the breakdown that occurred around 5:30 am is unknown, but brigades continue to operate in the area. It did not provide an estimated time for system recovery.

“In the early morning hours of today, there was an event at the Sabana Llana transmission center, near Carolina, which also hit the Monacillos transmission center. The power lines running between Monacillos and Sabana Llana had an event. We already have staff around to determine the cause of the malfunction and to introduce the rest of the customers who are without service “, said.

He determined that they’ve added subscribers to the system so far tomorrow, but that the Encantada and Conquistador substations in Trujillo Alto are still out of service.

“If you imagine that part of Carolina, San Juan and Guaynabo, that was the area of ​​the event and it was where most of the customers were without service. Currently we have more than 10,000 out of service customers. Once the staff has identified the cause of the outage, we will power the bus again to enter the substation and power the customers who have been left out, ”he said.

The Chairman of the Union of Workers of the Electricity and Irrigation Industry (Utier, for the English acronym), Jaime Figueroa Jaramillo, for his part, condemned in WKAQ-580 AM that The breakdown was foreseen yesterday and nothing was done about it because a specialized truck to solve this type of malfunction has been damaged for seven months..

“This error was discovered yesterday. Yesterday, what we called a hotspot in Sabana Llana’s transmission center. Do you know why it was not corrected? Because we didn’t have a truck. The truck broke down in an accident seven months ago in Puerto Nuevo and in seven months those running the authority, who are the same ones running it for the past three years, have not had the capacity to deal with the problem. “, he detailed.

According to Jaramillo, this truck has the ability to connect “live” to lines 115 and 230. “The partners become part of the line, but because that truck was not available, that hotspot on the 115 and 230 switch could not be repaired yesterday . Happiness and truth, it might happen and it won’t happen, but it happened, ”the union leader complained.

The new day requested a response from PREPA to this complaint, but no response has yet been received.