LatinNews Daily - 27 September 2018

Brazil’s electricity monitoring committee (CMSE) has decided that the country will stop importing electricity from Venezuela to the state of Roraima, at least until the end of the year, after the border state was successfully supplied with electricity for ten days by its four thermoelectric plants. Roraima is the only state in Brazil that is not connected to the national grid (SIN) and it depends on Venezuela for most of its electricity. However, Venezuela threatened to cut off its electricity supply to Roraima last month, citing an unpaid debt, and the electricity supply has been increasingly unreliable, with power cuts becoming more frequent. The Brazilian government’s decision to up the production of Roraima’s thermoelectric plants was a preventative measure, aimed at guaranteeing the autonomous supply of electricity to the state, which is feeling the pressure of the Venezuelan exodus on its public services.

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