Endesa, the electricity supplier company in La Gomera, has reported that the service is currently 95% restored and continues to dedicate all the necessary human and technical resources to normalize and strengthen the energy situation on the island after the energy zero originated on last Sunday.
The company has indicated through its official Twitter account that twelve new generator sets shipped on the Peninsula are already heading to La Gomera and their arrival on the island is estimated on Thursday morning. After 1 a.m. this Tuesday, activity restarted at the El Palmar Thermal Power Plant, with the recovery of up to 6.6 MW, produced by the three pieces of equipment recovered from the energy infrastructure, the injection of resources from the parks wind power and power from portable generators.
Endesa wanted to remind you that today it will be necessary to make occasional short-term power outages for maintenance and logistics work on the electrical network, and once again apologizes for the inconvenience caused. At the same time, it asks all customers to consume responsibly during the next hours and days to guarantee the replacement of the supply.
For its part, the Cabildo de La Gomera has approved an institutional declaration in defense of the rights of those affected by zero energy. The document, agreed upon by all the groups represented in the Corporation, requires Endesa to assume responsibilities and pay attention to losses caused to individuals and companies.
In addition, it urges the creation of a specific service channel for those affected, with free information telephone numbers and the opening of offices to process claims arising from this situation. At the same time that it is urgent, once again, to fully restore the supply, and to have all the technical and human resources necessary for it.
In the same way, the implementation of an external audit is required on the causes of zero energy and the state of the energy infrastructure, by the competent administration. As well as having adequate planning to guarantee the supply of fuel to the auxiliary electrical groups arranged by the insular geography.
The president of the Cabildo, Casimiro Curbelo, explained that a formal request is included to the Government of Spain for the urgent modification of the law that regulates the island’s electrical systems. “After what we have experienced, it is more than verifiable that we have a very weak system and an obsolete infrastructure that is not adequate to the needs of the island,” he asserted.
