Engineer Vásquez, director of Monitor Ciudad, believes that it is likely that the blackout was caused by lack of maintenance and failures in the protection system due to atmospheric discharges in the Guri
On September 20, the NGOs Ciudadanía sin límites and Monitor Ciudad presented data collected through their national monitoring system on the national blackout recorded on August 30 in Venezuela.
According to citizens who participated in this monitoring, the national average was 14 hours in the dark, while there were parts of the national territory that added up to 30 and 40 hours without electricity, they reported in a press release.
Jesus Vasquez, director of Monitor Ciudad, said that Sucre state broke the record for black out with 40 hours without electricity supply in the city of CarúpanoHe also pointed out that the data collected showed that intense electrical fluctuations continued for about three hours after the service was restored.
When asked about the causes of this national emergency, engineer Vásquez commented that the most likely hypothesis was due to lack of maintenance and failures in the protection system caused by atmospheric discharges in the Guri.
Monitor Ciudad Executives – Photo: courtesy
These announcements were made at the presentation of the study entitled “The reform of the electric energy industry in Peru”, as a result of which they seek to raise awareness about the energy reform that, in their opinion, is urgently needed in Venezuela.
Regarding this document, Jesús Armas, president of the same institution, referred to the need for transparency mechanisms that can protect the National Electric System (SEN): “We want the debate to focus not only on the rehabilitation of the system and the $20 billion needed for its recovery (…) but also to rethink the governance of the system,” he said.
Recapitulating on the nationalization of the electrical system, Armas proposed breaking up the current monopoly as one of the solutions to the national energy crisis to make way for the participation of private capital in Venezuela by separating the three stages of electricity generation: generation, transmission and distribution.
After talking about renewable energy and other possibilities, the engineer explained that Monitor Ciudad’s vision is none other than to have a system that serves Venezuelans to end blackouts. “We want transparency and democracy, those are the necessary conditions for everything to work,” he explained.
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