(Dánica Coto, AP) — A blackout hit nearly all of Puerto Rico early on Tuesday as the U.S. territory prepared to celebrate New Year’s, leaving more than 1.3 million clients in the dark. Officials said it could take up to two days to restore power. The outage hit at dawn, […]
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Commentary: Mexico’s Electricity Problem Requires Massive Investments to Resolve
(Pietro D. Pitts, Energy Analytics Institute, 29.Dec.2024) — While Mexico continues to face electricity problems derived from poor management of energy production and distribution to meet the needs of the entire country, the government of the Latin American country’s president Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo continues to offer support through discounts granted […]
Venezuela Blackouts Cut Oil Output by Half During March
(Bloomberg Fabiola Zerpa, 4.Apr.2019) — Power failures that plunged Venezuela into darkness for much of March also briefly slashed the country’s crude production by half, according to people familiar with the situation. Rolling blackouts across much of the country that started on March 7 paralyzed most of the country’s oil […]