Soaring temperatures in Mexico are driving record electricity consumption that has prompted the country's energy authority to issue a rare alert over grid capacity, as the government played down reports of blackouts.
With temperatures reaching above 45 Celsius in parts of the country, the grid briefly entered a state of emergency, the National Center for Energy Control said late Tuesday, reaching an operating reserve margin of under 6%.Daily demand reached a historical level last week of nearly 51,000 megawatts per hour, an executive at the national electricity federation Jorge Musalem said on Twitter.
"There's more consumption, but we don't have any difficulties. There's no problem," he said. "It's our responsibility that there aren't blackouts."
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