Posted on 06/19/2024 5:31:50 PM PDT by CFW
A nationwide electricity outage struck Ecuador on Wednesday, leaving the nation of some 18 million in the dark, including the capital's subway system, as authorities worked to repair faulty power lines, a senior official said on Wednesday.
"There is a failure in the transmission line that caused a cascade disconnection, so there's no electricity at a national scale," Public Works Minister Roberto Luque said in a post on X.
Luque also serves as the country's acting energy minister. A Reuters witness said there was confusion on the streets of Quito, the capital, as traffic lights ceased working. Operations of Quito's subway system have also ground to a halt.
"Due to a general failure of the national interconnected electrical energy system, the operation of the Quito Metro is interrupted while the systems are restarted and verified," the metro system said on X.
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Ecuador having the California experience.
I thought everyone from Ecuador is already hiding out somewhere in the U.S. They have all the electricity they need.
Equador is where the Chinese and myriad others fly into. One might hope they would seek asylum there but no, they head northward until past mexico.
https://cleantechnica.com/2023/02/04/chinas-investment-in-energy-in-ecuador/
It’s barely a stretch to say that China owns the Ecuador power grid.... here is a sampling of some of the main hydroelectric projects. Sopladora, Minas San Francisco, Delsitanisagua, Toachi-Pilaton, Coca Codo sinclair, Alluriquin, Sarapullo Quijos.
Since Ecuador will never be able to pay China back, suffice it to say that China owns Ecuador....
“Since Ecuador will never be able to pay China back, suffice it to say that China owns Ecuador.”
Perhaps this is a ‘calling card’ from China?
“...nice gwid you halve here...”
No active ATM machines without power. At least they have bitcoin ….
Oh wait…….
You will own nothing and be happy with your new Chinese Masters/Overlords.
i mean hasn't the whole damn country
already gotten here the last 3 years of bidens wide open border.
If the sun doesn't come out to charge the batteries I have a couple generators, one gasoline and a large natural gas unit. The large generator will charge the batteries in about 4 hours that will last for two days under normal load. To get 2 days out of my gasoline generator I would have to run it for up to 16 hours.
I don't want to make it sound easier than it is, you have to install a battery charger ( I have two) and an inverter, I have two of them too, one is not enough for the whole house when everything is on. It isn't as difficult as you might think, you can buy the components you need and likely find a kit that will have everything you need. Of Course, YouTube is your friend.
I did it all myself except for final inspection I had to hire an electrician to be here when the county inspector came to give me a tag. The inspector asked me if it worked after I showed him it did he gave me the tag.
Money is the problem. You have to pay for all that stuff, I happened to have some extra cash lying around after and investment matured so I used it. It was about 50K up front but by the time the government gave me tax credits it was only about 30K.
So after a decade do I think it was worth it? Absolutely! When I decided to do it electricity cost me four cents a KW but it had been announced that it was going to six cents. Well now it is about fifteen cents.
The majority of the months of the year I only pay the minimum connection fee of about $20. There have been Summer months that have been around a hundred dollars but I have a large house and that is cheap.
I started out with a much larger battery bank, but they were flooded lead acid batteries and I just didn't have the time to take care of them properly and ruined them. that is when I converted over to the nice AGM batteries. The AGM's don't require much attention. I like to travel a lot so that is a good solution for me. A lot of people say get Lithium batteries, yeah, they are nice but they too require a lot of attention and I would ruin them and lose a lot of money.
With the old flooded batteries I had to have them in a box and vent them to outside so I didn't blow up the house from their hydrogen gas they gave off when charging. A few of them actually arced when they got low on water from my mismanagement and blew up. It didn't take much of that to get me to get rid of them.
Sure hope not! We have a NERC training and qualification system for grid operators in the lower 48. The reason we have it is due to similar events in the past in the USA.
Your photo host's certificate expired, so internet browsers these days won't show your photos without manual intervention.
Lucky us right?
Sounds like a good set up.
—> It was about 50K up front but by the time the government gave me tax credits it was only about 30K.
Note: It was us who paid for your setup ~ not the government
Your photo host’s certificate expired, so internet browsers these days won’t show your photos without manual intervention.
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Yeah I know. I used to have a business and kept the site just so I could have a home page the way I wanted it. They charge $50 for a certificate and nobody goes there except me so I don’t need it. Me and my kids are the only ones who use the site but thought it would be neat to be able to post pictures from it.
—> It was about 50K up front but by the time the government gave me tax credits it was only about 30K.
Note: It was us who paid for your setup ~ not the government
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The Government didn’t PAY anything. I paid it all up front and avoided taxes in future years. I don’t know anybody that doesn’t take tax breaks. Did the government buy your house? Of course not but you hopefully took the interest deduction. I don’t see it any differently. The government wanted people to put solar on their house and I obliged.
You’re welcome.
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