Power outage in the Metropolitan Region: more than seven thousand homes remain without electricity supply

Various effects and problems have generated the intense rains in Santiagoa frontal system that remains during the morning of this Thursday, May 23.

Falling trees, flooded streets, flooded homes, and a series of problems with the electricity supply has been the balance of this meteorological event in the Metropolitan Region.

In that sense, and according to the Superintendency of Electricity and Fuels (SEC), there are currently 15,592 thousand customers without electricity supply throughout the country.

The most affected regions are Metropolitan (7,584), Coquimbo (3,951) and The lakes (998).

While in the capital, the communes most affected by people without electricity are San José de Maipo (2001), Maipu (1,150), Peñalolen (500), Santiago (341) and Hill (288).

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This situation occurs despite the fact that the authorities called on electricity companies to be prepared in the event of power outagesand not repeat what happened in the previous frontal system, where thousands of people remained without supply for more than 24 hours.