The bad weather that hit the country in the last few hours left around 45 thousand consumers — among families and companies — without electricity, with a greater incidence in the districts of Santarém, Portalegre and Castelo Brancosays the press release that Expresso had access to.
The first failures began to be registered during the morningbut the situation “presents positive evolution” throughout this Wednesday morning, notes Pedro Marques, responsible for managing the company’s distribution network E-Redes.
Despite the improvement, it is still too early to chart a horizon of complete normalization. “It is premature to estimate the total replacement time”, says the person in charge.
The company mobilized around 500 operationaldistributed from north to south of the country, to carry out repairs and restore supply “as quickly as possible”.
At 12:00, 25 thousand customers are without power and with the improvement in weather conditions expected for the afternoon, E-REDES hopes to quickly resolve all constraints.
This Wednesday, at 12pm, all districts of mainland Portugal are under yellow warningdue to heavy precipitation and strong winds. and maritime unrest. In the districts of Leiria, Lisbon and Setúbal there is an orange warning for sea disturbances.