Balance sheet from concessionaire Enel Distribuição SP, released at 4pm this Sunday (22), shows that, in the 24 cities in the Metropolitan Region of São Paulo served by the company, 35.7 thousand homes are still without electricity.
According to the concessionaire, the interruption in supply is caused by the rains that have hit the region since Friday (20), but also by common events in the energy distribution routine, such as car collisions with poles and vegetation interference in the network. electrical.
At 4 pm, the municipality of São Paulo had 28 thousand consumers without electricity, followed by Mauá (2.1 thousand people without power), Ribeirão Pires (1.5 thousand), and Santo André (1.4 thousand). According to Enel Distribuição São Paulo, in the capital of São Paulo, the Fire Department received 111 calls for falling trees due to the rain.
“The company activated its contingency plan in advance, with reinforcement of teams in the field, who will continue working 24 hours a day to rebuild the damaged sections of the network and restore service to all customers,” he said in a statement.