Stay alert, they keep to their schedule. La Gomera WITHOUT POWER OR MOBILE SERVICE
A generator destabilisation at El Palmar caused the blackout. Endesa started two units and the Cabildo reported a gradual recovery.
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The island of La Gomera lost its electricity supply and mobile coverage after a generator destabilised at the El Palmar power station, which brought down the rest of the network and caused a total blackout. Endesa started two units and the Cabildo reported a gradual recovery before 15:00.
## A failure at El Palmar brings down the island's grid
La Gomera was left in the dark. A total blackout left the island without power or mobile coverage, according to **Ondacero**. The cause: the destabilisation of a generator at the **El Palmar** power station, in **San Sebastián de La Gomera**. As a safety measure, the fault dragged down the rest of the system and cut the supply.
The El Palmar power station is the island's key generation facility. When one unit loses stability, the system has no margin and the domino effect is immediate.
## Endesa starts two units and asks for patience
The Minister for Ecological Transition and Energy of the Government of the Canary Islands, **Mariano Hernández Zapata**, reported that **Endesa** had started two units at El Palmar. The company warned that the recovery would "be slow" to prevent the system from "becoming unstable and collapsing again".
Shortly before 15:00, the **Cabildo de La Gomera** (the island council) announced the start of the gradual recovery. The caution makes sense: reconnecting all demand at once could trigger another collapse.
## Second total blackout since 2023
It is not the first time. In **July 2023**, a fire at the El Palmar power station already caused another total blackout. Two complete outages in just over two years point to a pattern: dependence on a single facility and no margin to spare.
The return of mobile service is tied to the power supply. Without electricity, the antennas do not work and communication is cut off.
## A failure at El Palmar brings down the island's grid
La Gomera was left in the dark. A total blackout left the island without power or mobile coverage, according to **Ondacero**. The cause: the destabilisation of a generator at the **El Palmar** power station, in **San Sebastián de La Gomera**. As a safety measure, the fault dragged down the rest of the system and cut the supply.
The El Palmar power station is the island's key generation facility. When one unit loses stability, the system has no margin and the domino effect is immediate.
## Endesa starts two units and asks for patience
The Minister for Ecological Transition and Energy of the Government of the Canary Islands, **Mariano Hernández Zapata**, reported that **Endesa** had started two units at El Palmar. The company warned that the recovery would "be slow" to prevent the system from "becoming unstable and collapsing again".
Shortly before 15:00, the **Cabildo de La Gomera** (the island council) announced the start of the gradual recovery. The caution makes sense: reconnecting all demand at once could trigger another collapse.
## Second total blackout since 2023
It is not the first time. In **July 2023**, a fire at the El Palmar power station already caused another total blackout. Two complete outages in just over two years point to a pattern: dependence on a single facility and no margin to spare.
The return of mobile service is tied to the power supply. Without electricity, the antennas do not work and communication is cut off.
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