Ecuador , a republic country in the northeastern south of America has faced a nationwide power blackout on wednesday afternoon due to some emergency transmission failure .
On wednesday , the 19th of June at 3 : 15 pm , the republic country of Ecuador was plugged into a power blackout , this blackout got the attention of the Public Works Minister to say a few words to the people of Ecuador to explain matters to them.
Mister Roberto Luque , the Minister for Public Works of Ecuador took to X formerly known as Twitter to say , he has received a report from the national electricity operator , CENACE , about a failure in the transmission lines that caused the disconnection , so there is no energy service nationwide “.
He further assures all Ecuadorians that , the authorities are doing everything possible to resolve the power outage ” as quickly as possible”.
Ecuador , has been struggling with electricity for quite a long number of years but never have they experienced the total national blackout of that magnitude as they experienced on Wednesday afternoon.
They are faced with failing infrastructure and a lack of maintenance of their $2.25 billion hydroelectric power plant built by the Chinese . This plant was built to help solve the problems of electricity but lack of maintenance is not helping to achieve the goal behind the building.
As a result , they are forced to be dependent on Colombia for their electricity.
