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Article: Colombia recovers electricity service after three-hour blackout
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- April 26, 2007
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Colombia recovers electricity service after three-hour blackout
BOGOTA, April 26 (Xinhua) -- After an over three-hour blackout due
to technical failures in the electric networks, 80 percent of
Colombia recovered the electricity service Thursday, the power
blackout had frozen market transactions and caused traffic chaos.
The Electricity Interconnection Company Manager Luis Alarcon said
that due to failures in the Torca power station, north of Bogota, a
dominoes-effect affected the electricity stations in 80 percent of
the country, in the biggest blackout in the past years.
"Electricity will have to be reestablished slowly, as well as the
system allows," said Alarcon, who added the ...
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