Eletrobras investigates power tower collapses amid coup attempts, Reuters reports.
"The system's safety is guaranteed... There is no risk of anything, absolutely nothing. The Furnas circuit that went down was taken over by another bipole," a source told Reuters.
Reuters - Eletrobras is investigating the reasons for the collapse of two electricity transmission towers belonging to its concessionaires Furnas and Eletronorte since Sunday, when coup attempts erupted across the country and threats against Petrobras refineries surfaced, two sources told Reuters.
"There were acts of vandalism on (transmission) lines... but it's impossible to know if it was an attack or related to (coup attempts)," said one of the sources.
The incidents affecting Eletrobras' infrastructure involved lines in Paraná and Rondônia. In the Paraná case, a tower of Bipole 2, which transmits energy generated by the Itaipu hydroelectric plant to the National Interconnected System, was knocked down.
The power supply was not compromised, one of the sources said.
"The system's safety is guaranteed... There is no risk of anything, absolutely nothing. The Furnas circuit that went down has been replaced by another bipole."
Another source said that teams are being deployed to the site in Paraná to investigate what happened and whether a tractor was used to bring down the tower.
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