New electricity interruption affects central Chile

Published at: 27/02/2025 10:37 PM

A new interruption of electricity service, this Thursday, February 27, affected about 33,000 Chilean homes in the Metropolitan Region of Santiago, where the country's capital is located, reported the Prensa Latina website.

He specified that the communes of Lampa, Colina and El Monte were the most damaged by the blackout, which lasted until the early hours of the night, the authorities explained, without disclosing the causes.

To a lesser extent, the outage also occurred in the capital areas of Ñuñoa, Maipú, San Ramón and San Joaquín, explained the National Electricity Coordinator.

The failure allegedly occurred on the Las Vegas-Cerro Navia transmission line, operated by the private company ChilQuinta, based in Valparaiso.

The event of this Thursday, the 27th, is in no way related to the massive blackout of last Tuesday, the 25th, which affected millions of users in 14 of Chile's 16 regions, said the Presidential Delegation in the province of Chacabuco.

Chile's Central Unit of Workers expressed concern about the structure of the operating system in the country, where energy generation, transmission and distribution are in the hands of many private actors, without effective state oversight.

This has generated, the CUT specified, a fragmentation of the service and the lack of investment in critical infrastructure, making the network very vulnerable to massive failures.