23,000 customers without electricity supply in the DANA area
As pointed out EFEaround 23,000 customers in the area most damaged by DANA in the province of Valencia remain without electricity supply, according to sources from the Iberdrola group’s distribution company, i-DE, which represents 15% of all those affected initially. moment due to heavy flooding.
The electricity company has already managed to restore the supply to 85% of those affected, more than 132,000 customers, and work continues to recover the service as its workers can access the affected facilities.
The company has about 80 generating sets that it is proceeding to connect in those areas where it is technically possible.
At the moment, the connection of more than 25 of these groups has already been carried out in the affected towns: Alborache, Alfafar, Buñol, Cheste, Chiva, Quart de Poblet, Montroy, Real, Siete Aguas, Torrent and Utiel, among others, and work continues in the rest of the locations that continue without service. The company, in coordination with the Emergency Control Center of the Generalitat Valenciana, continues to schedule actions to recover the electricity supply in the facilities that supply the water treatment plants of the affected municipalities, according to the same sources.
Since the beginning of DANA, i-DE has mobilized around 500 people from both the Valencian Community and other regions in the rest of Spain, to proceed with the repair of the affected facilities as soon as access is possible. As for other areas of Spain affected by the passage of DANA in which the electricity distributor is Endesa (Catalonia, Aragon, Andalusia and Extremadura), there are less than 2,000 customers in total who do not have service.
Sources from this company have indicated to EFE that this is a “very low” figure and that in its network territories the situation is “relatively calm”, although it maintains pre-alerts for today in Huelva, Tarragona and the Balearic Islands. Regarding the gas supply in the Valencian Community, Naturgy sources have explained to EFE that the network is not affected and that the cuts occur at the request of the emergency services to be able to act in complete safety
