"Unmanageable plant situation and exhausted staff trying to guarantee service to customers furious about the continuous blackouts. Enel has specific responsibilities. During the last few weeks, the few e-distribuzione operators and technicians have supported grueling shifts and had to work to restore electricity in situations bordering on psychophysical stress."
Franco Peana, regional secretary of Ugl Chimici-Energia intervenes following the continuous and constant voltage drops, power surges that are suffered daily in Porto Torres, as in other cities on the island .
The protests come from the Oleandro neighborhood to the city center and from the Balai area to the outskirts, disruptions that affect private homes and commercial businesses with consequences on household appliances, often put out of order. "From a customer three days in the dark in Santa Teresa di Gallura, so much so that the mayor had to intervene to restore power, to the explosions in the primary cabin reported on social media by customers, daily news like a war bulletin that report disruptions throughout Sardinia", Peana specifies.
"Lines and poles fell during the days of strong winds, many areas suffer from continuous medium voltage trips due to the aerial backbones in bare conductors, between birds, saltiness and other various causes, it has often created short but repeated interruptions", underlines the regional secretary of Sardinia Ugl Chimici-Energia. "In practice, in several municipalities there were several disruptions, many homes and businesses were practically in the dark".
Often these are lines that have been reported for years and on which E-distribuzione has not planned radical structural interventions. " Scheduled maintenance has not been done for years," explains Franco Peana, "so we intervene only after a breakdown. The systems we rely on are infrastructures that are at least 40-50 years old. Enel has declared that it wants to set up several million euros of investments, but in reality, he continues, "we can only see the continuous disservices that a few unarmed operators and technicians without materials have to deal with on a daily basis." For the regional secretary of Ugl Chimici-Energia, Peana «the situation is unsustainable for the workers, serious investments in infrastructure and a mapping of the lines and pilings to be replaced throughout the regional territory are needed , but also urgent scheduled maintenance and hiring of new staff in large numbers, the service to people and communities can no longer be guaranteed in the current conditions, Enel must take on the burden of making the plants safe as the concessionaire of the electricity distribution service».
