Brazil's Eletropaulo, CTEEP May Be Fined In Sao Paulo Blackout
10 February 2011 - 9:30AM
Dow Jones News
Eletropaulo (ELPL6.BR), the provider of electricity for the city
of Sao Paulo, may be fined up to 6 million Brazilian reals ($3.6
million) by Brazil's consumer protection agency after a recent
blackout left two and half million people without energy, the
agency said Wednesday.
Tuesday's blackout was caused after problems at a substation
operated by Cia. de Transmissao de Energia Eletrica Paulista, or
CTEEP as the transmission company is known. A transformer
overheated due to the substation working close to its capacity of
1,200 megawatts, causing an automatic shutdown, the consumer
protection agency known as Procon said on its website.
Eletropaulo, which is liable for damages in the case of outages,
may be fined if the agency finds it violated consumer protection
codes, Procon said.
Because the substation continues to operate close to capacity
and a backup station is set to come online only in 2012, CTEEP
can't guarantee that other blackouts won't occur, Procon said.
Representatives from Eletropaulo and CTEEP weren't available to
comment when contacted after business hours.
Tuesday's blackout was at least the second in the country in
less than a week. It left the area around Paulista Avenue and in
the Vila Olimpia and Itaim Bibi neighborhoods, where many of the
nation's major banks and brokerages have headquarters, without
energy for more than an hour. Last week, problems at a substation
in the country's northeast left eight Brazilian states without
power for as long as five hours.
-By Paulo Winterstein, Dow Jones Newswires; 55-11-3544-7073;
paulo.winterstein@dowjones.com
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