{"id":67442,"date":"2024-04-20T19:23:13","date_gmt":"2024-04-21T00:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=67442"},"modified":"2024-04-20T19:23:13","modified_gmt":"2024-04-21T00:23:13","slug":"severe-energy-crisis-paralyzes-ecuador-for-two-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=67442","title":{"rendered":"Severe energy crisis paralyzes Ecuador for two days"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Severe energy crisis paralyzes Ecuador for two days<\/a><\/h3>\n

President Daniel Noboa has suspended work and school on Thursday and Friday, and accuses the outgoing energy minister of having hidden the problem<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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A student reads a text by candlelight in Quito, Ecuador, on April 17, 2024.JOS\u00c9 J\u00c1COME (EFE)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n
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Ecuador is in the dark. Not only because the more-than-seven-hour long blackouts continued throughout the country on Wednesday, despite the presidential announcement that they would be suspended, but also because it\u2019s not known who is behind the crisis in the\u00a0energy sector<\/a>, nor the scale of the problem. Decisions taken by the Ecuadorian government have provided some clues. For example, the\u00a0president of Ecuador, Daniel Noboa<\/a>, signed a decree that will paralyze the country for two days. On Thursday and Friday, school will be suspended and there will be no work in either the public or private sectors.<\/p>\n

The document said that the move is to ensure \u201crest and leisure,\u201d but a few hours after it was signed, the underlying reason for the move was revealed: the critical conditions of the two most important reservoirs that provide water to the country\u2019s hydroelectric plants. \u201cMazar is registering an operational storage level of 0% and Paute of 4%,\u201d said a statement from the presidency. Ecuador\u2019s electricity provider CENACE said the situation has reached record lows, warning that the energy deficit in the country is up to 27 gigawatts per day.<\/p>\n

The Ecuadorian government said that based on a preliminary investigation carried out by the new energy minister, Roberto Luque, the crisis is not only related to the lack of rain that has extended the drought period, but to acts of corruption and negligence by high-level Energy Ministry officials, including former minister Andrea Arrobo. \u201cThey intentionally hid information crucial for the functioning of the national energy system,\u201d the statement said…<\/p>\n

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Severe energy crisis paralyzes Ecuador for two days President Daniel Noboa has suspended work and school on Thursday and Friday, and accuses the outgoing energy minister of having hidden the problem A student reads a text by candlelight in Quito, Ecuador, on April 17, 2024.JOS\u00c9 J\u00c1COME (EFE) Ecuador is in the dark. Not only because […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[78,34297,8739,1574],"class_list":["post-67442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","tag-blackout","tag-carolina-mella","tag-ecuador","tag-power-grid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67442"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67443,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67442\/revisions\/67443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}