A nationwide electricity outage has struck Ecuador, leaving the nation of about 18 million in the dark, including the capital’s subway system, as authorities worked to repair faulty power lines, a senior official said.
“There is a failure in the transmission line that caused a cascade disconnection, so there’s no electricity at a national scale,” public works minister Roberto Luque said in a post on X on Wednesday.
Luque also serves as the country’s acting energy minister.
A Reuters witness said there was confusion on the streets of Quito, the capital, as traffic lights ceased working. Operations of Quito’s subway system have also ground to a halt.
It takes more than just a faulty transmission line to take down an entire grid nation wide… There’s more to this story than they are letting on.
all it takes in Texas is a strong wind.
Definitely not going to defend ercot, but that was a very strong wind. Easy for me to say; i didn’t really lose power or trees. I did lose a litter box.
That’s shitty.
This disaster was surprising.
It sounds like “prepper” Roberto Luque is lucky enough to have a back-up generator and a starlink connection.
