Power cuts in Granada's North district, often linked to the use of homes for marijuana cultivation, create an overload on the grid that affects thousands of residents, regardless of whether they pay their bills. This situation leads to interruptions in basic services like elevators and appliances, and impacts electro-dependent individuals.
The Citizen's Ombudsman's office has repeatedly highlighted this issue in its annual reports, although a slight improvement has been noted in recent years. The energy company attributes the outages to grid overload, not to a lack of investment or obsolete facilities.
“"The blackout is inevitable. When an overload occurs in the transformation center, it fails. With an overload, the fuse blows and disconnects the low-voltage network, affecting entire buildings. We do not act; it is the transformation center that protects itself from overload; technically, it is unavoidable."
For this year, the company has announced actions exceeding 1.3 million euros, focused on reinforcing medium and low-voltage networks. The goal is to prevent the saturation caused by illegal connections for marijuana plantations from continuing to affect residents.
The plan includes the deployment of 2,800 meters of new medium-voltage network and 600 meters of low-voltage network throughout 2026. Over one thousand meters of channeling have already been completed in streets such as Bermúdez de Pedraza, Julio Moreno Dávila, and Rodrigo de Triana. Additionally, a new transformation center will be installed in the North Zone with two 1,000 kVA transformers each, a capacity typically found in industrial estates, adding to the 19 infrastructures installed over the past four years.
