Ecuador expands power cuts to 14 hours a day due to drought

Ecuador has announced an summation successful regular powerfulness cuts arsenic nan terrible drought impacting nan federation keeps lowering nan levels of h2o for nan cardinal hydroelectric plants, nan root of much than 70% of nan country's electricity

QUITO, Ecuador -- Ecuador has announced an summation successful regular powerfulness cuts arsenic nan terrible drought impacting nan federation keeps lowering h2o levels for nan cardinal hydroelectric plants, nan root of much than 70% of nan country's electricity.

Acting Energy curate Inés Manzano said precocious Thursday that nan authorities are ordering an energy work suspension from 8 to 14 hours a time successful nan state because nan drought has worsened successful caller days.

Like different South American countries, Ecuador has faced a prolonged barren season.

The caller measures travel days aft President Daniel Noboa said he anticipated nan powerfulness cuts successful nan state of 17 cardinal group to gradually decrease.

“We cognize nan sacrifices that are being made successful nan discourse of this superior energy crisis,” curate Manzano said successful a video connection connected X.

Since mid-September, Ecuador has established an energy rationing strategy of up to 10 hours a time successful immoderate cities, but nan powerfulness trim hours announced Thursday are nan astir utmost truthful far.

The drought affecting respective countries successful South America has been linked to nan El Nino upwind phenomenon.