More than 30,000 properties remain in the dark in Embu das Artes, in the São Paulo metropolitan region, two days after the passage of the extratropical cyclone that crossed the state. The city currently has the largest proportion of residents affected by the problem, with 27.5% of Enel customers without electricity until 2 p.m. this Friday (12/12).
On social media, residents are reporting the lack of electricity in neighborhoods like Jardim Laila, Jardim Castilho, Jardim Santa Emília and Jardim Marina. “I’ve been without electricity for 3 days, living with marmitex, because it ruined all my food. It’s reckless,” one user commented on Instagram.
“I have a daughter who is insulin dependent. We have to fight to prevent a vital supply from spoiling,” says one man.
At Metropolisesa resident of the Jardim Marina neighborhood said he was going to his relatives’ house to take a shower and recharge his cell phone.
Earlier this afternoon, the city’s mayor, Hugo Prado (Republicans), brought a camping tent to Enel’s front door. “We will camp here, working at the gates of Enel, until we have a definitive solution to the suffering of our people,” he said in a video. Look:
THE Metropolises requested a note from Enel on the situation of Embu das Artes and is awaiting a response.
Chaos in the Grand SP
According to data from the concessionaire itself, 646,184 properties are still without electricity throughout the São Paulo metropolitan region.
Discover the cities with the highest proportion of customers without electricity:
- 1st place: Embu das Artes – 27.5% (31,313 customers)
- 2nd place: Juquitiba – 20.39% (3,649 customers)
- 3rd place: Embu-Guaçu – 19.38% (4,434 customers)
- 4th place: Itapecerica da Serra – 18.78% (12,777 customers)
- 5th place: Vargem Grande – 17.82% (94,572 customers)
The capital São Paulo has 8.04% of properties without energy. But in absolute figures, São Paulo is the city with the greatest number of inhabitants in the dark: 466,488 Enel customers have been without electricity since Wednesday (10/10).
Sara Tedeschi, 52, a resident of the Americanópolis neighborhood, in the southern zone of the capital of São Paulo, says she started suffering from the power outage on Tuesday (September 12), as soon as it started blowing.
“We started calling Enel to complain. Yesterday they said we won’t come back until Monday,” she says. The independent woman goes to her sister’s house every day to charge her devices and take a shower. She also had to move frozen meals from her refrigerator to her sister’s. At home, it’s “candles all the time”.
Enel said in recent days that it had strengthened its field teams to speed up emergency responses and had made more than 700 generators available to respond to priority situations, but did not offer a time frame for resolving the cases.
“Enel São Paulo reiterates that it is investing a record amount of resources throughout the concession area. For the period 2025-2027, the company will invest R$10.4 billion, focusing on automation, strengthening and expansion of the network. In 2024 alone, R$2.1 billion was invested, an increase of 30% compared to the previous year,” the note said sent this Thursday.
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