With no deadline for the full restoration of electricity in São Paulo after the nearly 100 km/h windstorm that left more than 2 million properties without power, Enel — the concessionaire responsible for most of the state’s municipalities — attributed the outage to the impact of an extratropical cyclone and a windstorm considered historic, which lasted about 12 hours.
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According to the company, the weather event was violent: gusts of wind toppled trees and threw branches and objects onto the power grid. “Whole sections of the network were damaged, impacting energy supplies in several locations,” he reported.
The company claims to have mobilized more than 1,500 teams throughout the day yesterday to work on the restoration. “Since yesterday until 5 a.m. today, more than 500,000 customers have regained their normal supply. Currently, 1.5 million customers are affected,” said the distributor, who also made generators available for critical cases.
— Unlike other crises, where it rains, it takes two to three hours of rain and wind and it stops, we had winds all day yesterday of 97 km/h. It was not a wind that rose and stopped, it was a constant wind — said the director of Enel São Paulo, Marcelo Puertas, in an interview with Bom dia São Paulo. from TV Globo.
The most recent data from Enel shows that São Paulo is the municipality with the highest absolute number of customers without energy: 1,025,496 units are affected, or 17.67% of the total. In the metropolitan region, certain cities are proportionally even more affected. Embu-Guaçu, for example, has 61.89% of properties without electricity, or 14,158 out of a total of 22,874 customers. Cotia is also among the most affected municipalities, with 47.41% interruptions (67,105 customers).
Other localities show high rates, such as Juquitiba (47.95%), Santo André (19.19%), Itapecerica da Serra (30.99%) and Taboão da Serra (22.84%). In ABC, São Bernardo do Campo records 58,593 deleted properties (16.16%). In highly populated cities like Osasco and Diadema, respectively 38,465 and 26,622 customers remain without supply.
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About Enel yards being filled with maintenance vehicles as the city faced the power outage, Puertas said the cars belong to crews spread across different shifts. According to him, due to the logistics of the operation, each group ends the day leaving the vehicles parked at headquarters, while the next team takes care of other equipment and routes.
The interruptions also have an impact on the capital’s traffic system. According to the Traffic Engineering Company (CET), this morning, 235 traffic lights were out in the city.
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