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| Here’s why Venezuela’s partial blackouts are unfortunately likely to persist for a while | ||
| 2019-03-12 | ||
| [Anatoly Kurmanaev at Thread Reader] This is Venezuela’s main power distribution hub, the San Geronimo B substation outside Valle de la Pascua on Sunday. It was shut since Thursday. A cow roamed among transformers. No buzz from current. Workers said most of them were sent home indefinitely Friday. San Geronimo B is the only path for high-voltage (765 KV) supplies from Guri to 80% of Venezuelan population (Caracas, Central & Western Venezuela) The nearby San Geronimo A back up substation transmits much weaker 400 current from Macagua hydro plant near Guri to Caracas vía Santa Teresa. It’s been working on & off last 2 days. This, together with some limited thermal, is what’s been keeping intermittent light in Caracas. Corpoelec current, former employees & power expert @SoyJoseAguilar said this is unsustainable. The 400 KV line is too weak. Caracas outgrew is capacity already in early 80s when it launched Metro. Is it possible to provide stable supply to the country without San Geronimo B? “Impossible,” said @SoyJoseAguilar The La Horqueta substation in Villa de Cura, which sends Guri’s power to Valencia and onwards west via San Geronimo was also down Sunday. This is very bad news for Western Venezuela. They are last in line.
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| #15 those rayycciss capitalist pig bondholders! |
| Posted by: Frank G 2019-03-12 21:57 |
| #14 Corpoelec defaulted on bonds on April 10, 2018 without paying anything on the principle or interest to bond holders. |
| Posted by: Neville Dark Lord of the Wee Folk7365 2019-03-12 21:33 |
| #13 Don't worry - they have Cuban doctors. Top men. Top. Men. |
| Posted by: Frank G 2019-03-12 21:01 |
| #12 No power, no water pressure. No running sewers. Next, disease. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2019-03-12 20:16 |
| #11 The guys in the video at the 5:07 mark. Third world engineering expertise... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3zltVGa5sk |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2019-03-12 17:46 |
| #10 So is that our fault, too? Opns manuals in English. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2019-03-12 17:29 |
| #9 Shutdown and startup procedures are a social construct of the white man, and this is a CIA infiltration plot on the dam to steal electricity and keep South America poor. They've really never liked electricity or well chambre bien éclairée. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2019-03-12 17:20 |
| #8 Shutdown and startup procedures are a social construct of the white man, and this is a CIA infiltration plot on the dam to steal electricity and keep South America poor. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2019-03-12 15:36 |
| #7 Nobody had shut them down before restarting the turbines So is that our fault, too? |
| Posted by: gorb 2019-03-12 13:36 |
| #6 Bovine topics are generally Burg winners. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2019-03-12 13:29 |
| #5 The whole thing reads like a lost chapter of Atlas Shrugged. Agreed |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2019-03-12 12:40 |
| #4 The whole thing reads like a lost chapter of Atlas Shrugged. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2019-03-12 12:29 |
| #3 Sounds like an adjacent step-up transformer yard next to the Guri power plant blew up when they tried to re-start the turbines there. Nobody had shut them down before restarting the turbines ('phased startup') and they went to 100% immediately...and you can guess the rest. Kind of like restarting your 1/2-ton truck from a dead-stop while in gear, uphill, and towing 50K lbs. Something is gonna give. |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2019-03-12 12:18 |
| #2 Here'swhy Venezuela's partial blackouts are unfortunately likely to persist for a while. Because anything other than socialism. |
| Posted by: gorb 2019-03-12 11:22 |
| #1 AOC would say it's a perfect opportunity to stop using that icky turbine generated electricity stuff... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2019-03-12 10:19 |