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Equatorial Energia reported, around 1:50 pm today, that the electricity supply was restored in Teresina (PI), after residents of the capital’s neighborhoods spent about 65 hours in the dark. However, the company admits there are occasional problems and has made telephones available to communicate with consumers.
After a storm on New Year’s Eve, around ten neighborhoods were without power. The rain caused the fall of at least 280 trees, in addition to billboards.
The Equatorial Piauí clarifies that, according to the signed commitment, the restoration of supply to 100% of the collective occurrences registered in Teresina on December 31 and January 1, after the heavy rains, winds and lightning that hit the capital. Such occurrences are those whose same point of defect in the network affects the supply to more than one customer ”, he reported.
The inhabitant continues without light
The medical student Adriano dos Anjos Sousa informed the report of the Twitter that the power did not return to his residence and that he has been without light for more than 65 hours. “It is an absurd, unbearable situation. The power was restored to part of the street, after a demonstration by the population that was holding the equatorial vehicle, but I still have no light, ”said the student who lives on Ney Street. Bauman, in the neighborhood of Buenos Aires.
On her social network, Councilor Thanandra Sarapatinhas (Patriota) announced that she will file a complaint against Equatorial on Monday (4).
“It is absurd that the company in charge of the energy supply has not yet solved the problem, and the only pronouncement of them is a text ready for everyone who goes to their page to complain. On Monday I will file a complaint with Procon and request the measures. I sympathize with all the fathers and mothers of families who are seeing their food spoil, sick relatives who depend on devices to survive, etc. ”, Said the parliamentarian.
The public transport driver, Francisco Paz Costa, 42, said that the light returned around 1 am, on the Manoel Evangelista set, in the Novo Horizonte neighborhood, southeast of Teresina.
“We went through a very difficult year 2020, with a pandemic, and we still had to go through a blackout. Despair. We could not even set foot outside the home, due to the robberies,” said the driver, who was over 48 years old. hours without light.
The company said it had created a task force for the restoration of the capital’s power grid.
“Equatorial Piauí reinforces clients that, in the event that a specific problem persists, register a request through the Distributor’s channels. For customer service, Central 0800 086 0800, the site and application of Equatorial Energy. It is also possible to report a power outage through Clara, the Distributor’s virtual assistant who attends the number (86) 3228-8200, by WhatsApp message ”, says the note.
Storm in Teresina
The power outage occurred around 8 p.m. on December 31, after a storm with strong winds and lightning. Since October 2018, Equatorial Energia took over the electric power concession in the state, promising an investment of R $ 720 million.
Teams from the Fire Department, Teresina City Council, and Equatorial had to work to remove trees from electrical wiring, houses, and public roads.
The population focused on tires and banned Duque de Caxias Avenue, one of the main access roads to the Buenos Aires neighborhood, in the north of Teresina. In the morning, even without light, the population closed the avenue with wood, trestles and a chair.
The president of the Municipal Health Foundation of Teresina, Dr. Gilberto Albuquerque, reported that he was forced to transfer two patients with covid-19 from the Padre Pedro Balzi field hospital, installed in the Badminton Training Center, at the UFPI (University Federal of Piauí). , in the Ininga neighborhood, east of Teresina. Even with a generator, patients who needed respirators were transferred to the annex of the HUT (Hospital de Urgência de Teresina), which cares for patients with the new coronavirus. In Campaign hospital, which was without power for about 15 hours, there were about 16 patients.
