MEXICO CITY (AP) — Energy was knocked out to greater than 2 million prospects in three states in southeast Mexico Friday after an issue with a transmission line, the nation’s president mentioned.
President Claudia Sheinbaum mentioned by way of X that technicians from Mexico’s state-owned energy firm, often called CFE, had been working to revive energy to Yucatan, Campeche and Quintana Roo states.
CFE mentioned in a press release that energy was minimize to greater than 2.2 million customers simply after 2 p.m. Friday, whereas upkeep was being carried out on transmission traces.
Quintana Roo is residence to Mexico’s tourism crown jewels, together with Cancun and Tulum, alongside the Caribbean coast.
Sheinbaum mentioned in one other message later updating the hassle to revive energy that the lights had been again on in most of Yucatan’s capital Merida, a lot of the state of Campeche and a few cities in Quintana Roo together with Chetumal, Bacalar and Holbox.
Earlier this 12 months, there was one other blackout within the area that CFE attributed to “dangerous high quality” pure gasoline that was equipped to a producing plant.
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