Article: Colombia recovers electricity service after three-hour blackout

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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