Mexico power plant goes down for hours

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Mexico power plant goes down for hours

Associated Press May 24, 2001 07:55:00

TUCSON - A malfunction shut down a new power plant in Hermosillo, Mexico, and left almost a million customers without electricity for hours.

Wednesday's outage stretched from Arizona's southern border to 600 miles north to Culiacan in the Mexican state of Sinaloa, said Jose Valdez Campoy, head of the Mexican Federal Electricity Commission in the state of Sonora.

The outage began at 2:45 p.m. but by 9 p.m., power had been restored for 90 percent of the customers, Valdez told The Arizona Daily Star.

He didn't describe the nature of the malfunction.

The plant in Hermosillo, built by a Spanish firm that is also building a power plant near the border city of Agua Prieta, Mexico, had been functioning for about two weeks, Valdez said.

It is powered by natural gas that travels across southeastern Arizona in an El Paso Natural Gas pipeline, which crosses the border near Naco, Ariz.

The outage did not affect power in Arizona side because the two electrical grids do not connect.

http://www.arizonarepublic.com/arizona/articles/0524mexico-hermosillo-ON.html

-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), May 25, 2001


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