Since it’s privatization im 2019, the company had laid off 39% of its employees.
It’s almost as if vital national infrastructure shouldn’t be one of those things left in private hands.
Sounds bad like in South Africa 🤔
Not sure of they problems are the same. South Africa de regulated the energy market to make itself “friendly” to private investors, while at the same time forbid its national energy company for building any new plants (because it was UnfAiR CoMpeTItIoN), the private investors never came to supply they growing demand and now they are behind like 50 years in energy generation.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The storm snapped branches and knocked down hundreds of trees that fell on overhead power lines in many streets of the city, initially cutting off 2.1 million customers in Metropolitan Sao Paulo, energy distribution company ENEL said.
I had no electricity, no cellphone and no fuel on Friday," said carpenter Denilson Laurindo, who faulted the city for not pruning trees in the streets.
Thiago Gonzalez, an electrical engineer, had to rent a room in a nearby neighborhood so he and his wife could get a hot shower and sleep with air conditioning.
The company, which is the second largest energy distributor in Brazil and owned by Italy’s energy group ENEL (ENEI.MI), said the gale-force winds that hit Sao Paulo on Friday were the strongest in recent years and caused severe damage to the power grid due to falling trees and branches.
The Sao Paulo’s state prosecutors office said it will investigate why so many customers in the city where left for so long without electricity and whether ENEL has enough staff to cope with emergencies in the 24 districts it serves.
Alexandre Vieira Monteiro, a condominium administrator, said six of the seven buildings he manages have had power supplies restored, but one was still without electricity in Morumbi.
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