Ecuador’s National Chamber of Aquaculture (CNA) has called on the government to refrain from advancing plans to issue large electricity cuts during the last two weeks of the year.
Power outages have battered Ecuador for months as adverse weather conditions have particularly affected areas where the country’s dams are located, which is especially problematic in Ecuador as hydropower comprises nearly 60 percent of the energy the nation generates.
“If this scenario continues, the [shrimp] sector could accumulate losses of tens of millions in a few weeks, compromising not only exports but also the domestic production of inputs and the survival of shrimp in pools that depend on electrical systems,” the CNA said in a September release.
Now, the plan for electricity cuts at the end of the year would target the nation’s high voltage-consuming industries …
