Breakdowns of the AEE leaves without light to customers of sectors of Carolina, High Trujillo, San Juan and Guaynabo

Several breakdowns in the high voltage lines that run between the transmission centers of Sabana Llana and Monacillos de la Electricity Authority (AEE) left without light this morning over 45,000 subscribers from sectors of Carolina, Trujillo Alto, San Juan and Guaynabo.

The head of technical operations of the public corporation, Carlos Alvarado, has indicated that although the service has already begun to be restored in some sectors of Carolina, the Conqueridor and Encantada substations, in Trujillo Alto, remain out of service and affecting to sectors of this municipality and San Juan.

Alvarado will need that the main breakdown was caused by a line called an “over head” that fell on a transmission bar, causing the bar and lines 3100 and 37900 to go out of service.

“An ‘over head’ of the structure where the 115 bar is located broke, falling on line 3100, a line of 38,000 kilowatts, which caused the bar 115 to go out of service and line 37900 also with Line 3900 runs from Sabana Llana to Monacillos and is affected by the Conqueridor and Encantada substations, “he told The New Day.

The other breakdown was reported near the former Carolina Conductor Service Center (Cesco) in Carolina, where another “over head” line fell.

Despite this, Alvarado maintained that the Escorial, Sabana Llana and Carolina Poble substations already have electricity service. The rest of the places that remain without light could recover the service between noon and afternoon hours when ENERGIC the Conqueridor and Encantada substations.

“We are mobilizing island construction personnel to deal with both situations, both the section from Monacillos to Conqueridor, and the section from Sabana Llana to Encantada, where the Cesco de Carolina is located. In both sections we are talking about structures over 100 feet of height, so we need specialized equipment to work the same “, has pointed out.

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

“This breakdown was detected yesterday. Yesterday, what we call a hot spot at the Sabana Llana transmission center. Do you know why it was not corrected? Because we didn’t have a truck. The truck broke down seven months ago in an accident that was in Port Nou and in seven months, those who run the authority today, who are the same ones who have been running it for the past three years, have not had the capacity to address the problem. “, He detailed.

According to Jaramillo, this truck has the ability to connect to lines 115 and 230 “live.” “The teammates become part of the line, but to him not to have this truck available, this hot spot on the ‘switch’ of 115 and 230 could not be repaired yesterday. Luck and truth, maybe it happens and it doesn’t happen, but it happened, ”the union leader lamented.

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

“This information is incorrect. Yesterday one of the inspectors did some maintenance we do in Sabana Llana to find hot spots. He found a hot spot on the bench of the transformer, down. It has nothing to do with the situation that occurred this morning. This morning’s was an ‘over head’ and the St. John’s Unit is working on this hot spot. It has nothing to do, it has nothing to do with the situation this morning, “he said.

Asked how the truck is, Alvarado said that after the accident it remains out of service due to ongoing investigations, but defended that the EEA bought two vehicles of this type that have not yet reached the island.