The island of La Palma suffered another power cut on Wednesday that affected 13,740 supply points, according to Endesa, cited by Radio Televisión Canaria (RTVC) and Diario de Avisos. The outage began at 07:23 Canary Islands time and supply was restored across the island about 20 minutes later; Diario de Avisos puts full restoration at 07:45.
According to Diario de Avisos, which cites information from Endesa to EFE, the cause was the disconnection of several generating units at the Los Guinchos power station, in Breña Alta, which caused instability in the medium-voltage grid. The cause of that disconnection remains unknown, according to the same source.
The sources disagree on what Endesa says about the age of the power station: RTVC indicates that the company attributes the outage to obsolete infrastructure while acknowledging that it does not know the exact causes, whereas Diario de Avisos reports that some units are between 50 and 54 years old but that Endesa has not linked their age to the fault.
It is the second incident in a few days: on Saturday a trip on Red Eléctrica's 66 kV Guinchos-Valle line left 17,624 supply points without power and hours later the island suffered a total blackout, RTVC recalls.
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