Through a statement, the Costa Rican Electricity Institute (ICE) has categorically denied the statements by the president of the National Electric Transmission Company (ENATREL), Salvador Mansell, who stated that the Costa Rican power plants were the cause of the interruption of the energy supply in Nicaragua, which occurred on June 8.
“It is false that the events presented today (Thursday, June 8) in the Nicaraguan electrical system – still under analysis by the Regional Operating Entity (EOR) – were generated by power plants in Costa Rica,” indicated ICE.
The Costa Rican agency also explained that “the protections of the National Electric System (SEN) acted to avoid affecting national customers, given the events presented at the regional level.”
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“Among the protection measures that were activated, loads were disconnected at certain points to maintain the stability of the Costa Rican system. These charges were restored in a few minutes and the SEN continued to operate normally,” he added.
During the morning of Thursday, June 8, Nicaragua experienced a power cut that affected several departments of the country, leaving the population without electricity for more than two hours.
Minister Salvador Mansell pointed to Costa Rica as responsible for the blackout, attributing the interruption of the energy supply to that country.
Through the official media, the head of ENATREL explained that at 11:32 in the morning yesterday, Thursday, there were partial interruptions in the electrical service nationwide.
The blackout “was caused by the outages of some generation plants in the neighboring country of Costa Rica, they had some problems in the generation plants and being interconnected with the rest of the countries, and Nicaragua, being the closest country, logically contributes to that energy deficit at that moment instantly to the Costa Rican system,” Mansell said.
In addition, it is not clear what the power plants in Costa Rica would have to do with the interruption of the electricity supply in Nicaraguan territory, when the administration of Ortega Murillo says that it has transformed the energy matrix, producing, from renewable sources, more than 80 percent of the energy consumed in the country.
On the other hand, experts assure that the transformation of the energy matrix in the country is a lie that has neither head nor tail, since neither the high tariff that Nicaraguans pay, which is 10 times more expensive than that of Costa Rica, nor the agricultural and industrial backwardness in which the country is submerged provide the basis for this falsehood to be sustained.
