People stuck in lifts, traffic lights off, cash machines dead… This was the situation in Tenerife yesterday when another power cut affected 40% of the island. The power cut occurred at 9:15AM yesterday (Wednesday 4th August 2010) when there was an ‘incident’ in Las Caletillas power station which provides electricity to 40% of the island. [...]
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Power cuts ‘likely’ until 2014
Posted by Canaries News on April 10th, 2010
More island wide power cuts are expected until three new power generating substations are built, which are not due to be completed until 2014. The sub stations will be built in Tenerife, Fuerteventura and Gran Canaria. In the meantime, the Canarian Government, in meetings wit hthe power supply operators REE, are taking ‘steps’ to try [...]
Power cut affects 95% of Lanzarote
Posted by Canaries News on March 24th, 2010
A power cut, this time on Lanzarote, left nearly the whole of the island (95%) without electricity for approximately 1 and a half hours today when a fault (currently unknown) in Punta Grande caused all the municipalities sub stations to shut down, except Yaiza, which is powered from an underwater cable from Fuerteventura via Playa [...]
Unelco-Endesa to pay €6 million fine over power cut
Posted by Canaries News on March 19th, 2010
Unelco-Endesa are to pay a fine of €6.000.000 for leaving 468.000 clients (the whole of the island of Tenerife) without electricity on the 4th March 2010. The company claims a protection system failed during ‘heavy atmospheric conditions’ on the 4th March 2010 and left the whole island of Tenerife without electricity for over 7 hours.
Las Caletillas power station to close in 2015
Posted by Canaries News on March 4th, 2010
The ‘Las Caletillas’ power station is to shut down in June 2015, according to reports. While the debate over the contruction of a third power station on the island of Tenerife continues in order to minimise more island-wide power cuts, it seems that the company (Unelco-Endesa) has forgotten that the original power station in Candelaria, [...]
