{"id":1229,"date":"2020-01-09T21:26:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-09T21:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cerca.org.mx\/?p=1229"},"modified":"2020-01-09T21:26:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-09T21:26:00","slug":"state-of-emergency-declared-for-bajas-electrical-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cerca.org.mx\/en\/state-of-emergency-declared-for-bajas-electrical-system\/","title":{"rendered":"State of emergency declared for Baja\u2019s electrical system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mexiconewsdaily.com\/news\/state-of-emergency-declared-for-bajas-electrical-system\/?utm_source=fb&#038;utm_campaign=baja-electrical-emergency\">State of emergency declared for Baja\u2019s electrical system<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cerca.org.mx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/electricity-565x350-300x186.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"186\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1230\" \/><\/p>\n<p>La Paz and Los Cabos have been hit with intermittent blackouts since Sunday<\/p>\n<p>After a series of blackouts across Baja California Sur on Sunday and Monday, the National Energy Control Center (Cenace) declared a state of emergency on Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The blackouts started on Sunday night in different neighborhoods of La Paz and Los Cabos and lasted between 40 minutes and an hour and a half. There have also been blackouts in the municipalities of Loreto, Muleg\u00e9 and Comod\u00fa, affecting a total of over 400,000 people.<\/p>\n<p>Around 1:30pm on Monday, Cenace announced an emergency warning because the state\u2019s grid was using part of its operating reserve to cover demand. At 2:57pm, the agency declared a state of emergency because the operating reserve had fallen below 4%.<\/p>\n<p>Cenace did not give any explanation regarding the cause of the blackouts.<br \/>\nThe Center for Renewable Energy and Environmental Quality, a renewable energy advocacy organization, blamed the blackouts on the inflexibility of the state\u2019s electrical grid, which it says is operating above its capacity.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, four Baja California Sur state deputies issued a statement saying they had received many complaints and questions about the blackouts from their constituents, and asked the Federal Electricity Commission to explain the problem.<\/p>\n<p>Baja California Sur Civil Protection officials said they are in constant contact with the CFE, and are monitoring hospitals and other facilities where electric power is vital to prevent interruptions.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State of emergency declared for Baja\u2019s electrical system La Paz and Los Cabos have been hit with intermittent blackouts since Sunday After a series of blackouts across Baja California Sur on Sunday and Monday, the National Energy Control Center (Cenace) declared a state of emergency on Monday afternoon. The blackouts started on Sunday night in &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/cerca.org.mx\/en\/state-of-emergency-declared-for-bajas-electrical-system\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">State of emergency declared for Baja\u2019s electrical system<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog-energia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cerca.org.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cerca.org.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cerca.org.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cerca.org.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cerca.org.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cerca.org.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cerca.org.mx\/en\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cerca.org.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cerca.org.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cerca.org.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}