Mexico restores electricity service in the Yucatan Peninsula

Mexico City.- Mexico’s state-owned Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) reported this Friday that it has restored the 230 kilovolt (kV) lines of the affected substations as well as the 400 kV lines and the electric power service of the states of Yucatan and Quintana Roo, after having registered blackouts. In a statement on social media, CFE specified that today at 2:19 p.m. local time (8:19 p.m. GMT), due to maintenance work on the 400 kV LT ESA A3Q20 / A3Q30 TIC lines with 2,174 megawatts (MW), an electrical fault was recorded that affected more than 2 million users in the Mexican states of Campeche, Yucatán and Quintana Roo in the southeast of the country.

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“As a result of this event, nine power plants in the southeast with 16 units went out of operation. Immediately, personnel from the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) in coordination with the National Energy Control Center (Cenace) began work to restore service,” the document stated. CFE detailed that the municipalities of Mérida, Valladolid, Cancún, Ciudad del Carmen and Chetumal have re-established their lines and that “conditions will continue to be re-established for all affected users’ service.” “We reiterate that progress will be reported in a timely manner until the complete normalization of the electrical service in the region,” he concluded. On its part, the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS) also reported on its X account that “there were no affectations to hospitalized patients with life support,” as the emergency plants went into operation and function in priority areas. Prior to the CFE’s announcement, the President of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, posted on her X account at 4:32 PM local time (10:32 PM GMT), that “the electric power service had already been restored in most of Mérida and Valladolid, Yucatán. Also in Chetumal, Bacalar, Álvaro Obregón and Holbox, Quintana Roo, and most of the state of Campeche”.