Blackouts are caused by misuse of the service, they say

For the president of the College of Mechanical, Electrical and Electronic Engineers, José Vela del Río, less than half of the blackouts and failures recorded in the energy supply are attributable to the Federal Electricity Commission, and to a greater extent to a bad use of the service or increases in consumption.

According to him, many of the cases are due to the fact that in certain sectors of the city there are users who are hung up or who have irregular access to the service, who generally do not take precautions with this practice and if there is a problem, they cause interruptions in the entire circuit, affecting the neighbors.

There are other situations in which users have equipment that does not comply with the network code, which also affects third parties.

Furthermore, the increase in load is another factor that has increased, since with the high temperatures people tend to install more climates or air conditioners in their homes, without reporting it to the Commission, which is important to do so that it takes the forecasts into account. regarding greater energy demand.

Vela del Río indicated that in fact, the increase in load is stipulated in the service contract, so recently, medium commercial and industrial users who have increased consumption and have not notified about it, have begun to receive notifications so that they are updated in this regard, within a period of no more than 48 hours.

Given this, he considered it important that the CFE be notified about this increase, both for domestic users and those indicated, since beforehand the meter will register a higher consumption and it will be reflected in the bimonthly bill, but when reporting to the called a State productive company, eventual disruptions to the service can be prevented.