Historic heat and drought trigger electric rationing in Mexico, Costa Rica, Ecuador and Colombia. Large areas of Central and South America have set high temperature records since June of last year
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In Mexico, the government is urging citizens to cut back on energy consumption and water usage. “There was a demand that exceeded the generation capacity of energy,” said the Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador at a Thursday press conference,
In recent days, blackouts have been recorded in the country’s capital and in other areas, such as Michoacán (west), Tamaulipas (northeast) and Campeche (southeast). In some of these regions the temperature exceeded 40º C. The entity responsible for the Mexican electrical system usually makes power cuts to balance supply and demand. The heat and accompanying drought caused the level of several dams in the country to reduce, causing concern in the productive sectors, mainly in agriculture.