PREPA failures leave customers in the Carolina, Trujillo Alto, San Juan and Guaynabo sectors without electricity

Some faults in the high voltage lines running between the Sabana Llana and Monacillos transmission centers from Electricity Authority (AEE) left more than 45,000 subscribers without electricity this morning in sectors in Carolina, Trujillo Alto, San Juan and Guaynabo.

Carlos Alvarado, head of public corporation technical operations, said that although the service has already begun to be restored in some areas of Carolina, the Conquistador and Encantada stations in Trujillo Alto remain out of service and affect sectors in San Juan and San Juan.

Alvarado said that the main failure was caused by a line called “overhead” which fell on a bus bar, causing the bus and lines 3100 and 37900 to come out of service.

“An” upper head “of the structure in which 115 bar is broken, falling on line 3100, a line of 38,000 kilowatts, which made bar 115 no longer work and line 37900, also with effect. Line 3900 runs from Sabana Llana to Monacillos and has affected the Conquistador and Encantada stations, “he said. The new day.

The other malfunction was reported near the old Carolina Driver Service Center (Cesco) in Carolina, where another airline crashed.

Despite this, Alvarado said that the Escorial, Sabana Llana and Carolina Pueblo stations already have electricity services. The rest of the places that run out of electricity could regain service between noon and late afternoon, when they will supply the Conquistador and Encantada substations.

“We mobilize the construction staff of the island to deal with both situations, both from the stretch from Monacillos to Conquistador, and from Sabana Llana to Encantada, where Cesco de Carolina is located. In both sections we are talking about structures over 100 feet high, so we need specialized equipment to work on them, “he said.

For his part, the president of the Union of Workers in the Electricity and Irrigation Industry (Utier), Jaime Figueroa Jaramillo, denounced in WKAQ-580 AM that The fault was anticipated yesterday and was not addressed because a specialized truck to deal with this type of failure was damaged for seven months.

“It simply came to our notice then. Yesterday, what I called a hot spot in the Sabana Llana transmission center. Do you know why it wasn’t corrected? Because I didn’t have a truck. The truck broke down seven months ago in an accident in Puerto Nuevo and in seven months, those who drive the authority today, who are the same ones who have been driving it for the last three years, have not had the capacity to address the issue. “, detailed the.

According to Jaramillo, this truck has the ability to connect to lines 115 and 230 “live”. “The passengers became part of the line, but because they did not have that truck available, that hot spot on switches 115 and 230 could not be repaired yesterday. Luck and truth, maybe it happens and it doesn’t happen, but it happened “, lamented the union leader.

However, Alvarado denied that the hot spot that was detected yesterday and the damaged truck are related to the failure that left thousands of subscribers without electricity. He assured that today’s event is an “isolated situation”.

“This information is incorrect. Yesterday one of the inspectors did some of the maintenance we do in Sabana Llana to find hot spots. He found a hot spot on the transformer floor on the ground floor. It has nothing to do with the situation that took place this morning. This morning was a “head” and the San Juan Unit is working on that hot spot. It has nothing to do with it, it has nothing to do with the situation this morning, “he said.

Asked what the truck is like, Alvarado indicated that after the accident he remains out of service due to the ongoing investigations, but claimed that PREPA bought two vehicles of this type that have not yet arrived on the island.