17/09/2019 Central America alert

Alert
All of Honduras, large parts of Nicaragua and some parts of El Salvador and Guatemala wer blacked out by partial power outages. Both the internet, 600 traffic lights and water distribution, the latter most using electric on pumps, in parts of the capital also stopped working.

About 9,000,000 million Hondurans and millions of Nicaraguans were affected.

Leonardo Deras of Honduras' state electric company said the causal problem arose from an overload at a substation on Honduras' Caribbean coast; while Salvador Mansell, president of Nicaragua's state power transmission company, Enatrel, also said the blackout hit Managua, along with Nicaragua's main departments (provinces).

There are about 600,000 paying electricity customers, plus many illegal users, in the country.

Power had begun began to be restored by the afternoon, but Honduras' government had said it would probably take 3 or 4 hours.

The 4 nations, along with both Costa Rica and Panama have shared an inter-linked electrical network since the late 1980s.