{"id":3849,"date":"2017-07-20T08:14:58","date_gmt":"2017-07-20T07:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.inmesol.com\/blog\/?p=3849"},"modified":"2023-06-21T10:12:22","modified_gmt":"2023-06-21T10:12:22","slug":"stand-energy-inmesol-biggest-snowfall-past-10-years-santiago-de-chile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inmesol.com\/en\/blog\/stand-energy-inmesol-biggest-snowfall-past-10-years-santiago-de-chile\/","title":{"rendered":"Stand-by energy by INMESOL during the biggest snowfall in the past 10 years in Santiago de Chile"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>More than 300,000 homes were affected by a power outage.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Several <strong>hundred<\/strong> <strong>INMESOL<\/strong> generator sets are providing service across Chile. Most of this equipment are operating in <strong>stand-by mode and ensure power supply<\/strong> in case of <strong>mains failure<\/strong>, as it happened this past Saturday after the <strong>heaviest<\/strong> snowfall ever reported that affected the <strong>high areas<\/strong> in the <strong>city of Santiago<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3845\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3845\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3845\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/stand-energy-inmesol-biggest-snowfall-past-10-years-santiago-de-chile.jpg\" alt=\"IK-033 model stand-by genset at the back of a pharmacy in Santiago de Chile\" width=\"400\" height=\"712\" title=\"\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3845\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">IK-033 model stand-by genset at the back of a pharmacy in Santiago de Chile<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Snowfalls in <strong>Santiago de Chile<\/strong> are uncommon. However, due to a cold snap this past weekend, specifically, during the early hours of Saturday 15<sup>th<\/sup>, there was a <strong>snow storm<\/strong> so intense that caused <strong>fallen power lines, falling of trees,<\/strong> traffic jams, and some road accidents across the city.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3848\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3848\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3848 lazyload\" data-src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/1_stand-energy-inmesol-biggest-snowfall-past-10-years-santiago-de-chile.jpg\" alt=\"Santiago city covered in snow. - Image: EPA\" width=\"640\" height=\"450\" title=\"\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 640px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 640\/450;\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3848\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Santiago city covered in snow. &#8211; Image: EPA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3846\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3846\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3846 lazyload\" data-src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/2_stand-energy-inmesol-biggest-snowfall-past-10-years-santiago-de-chile.jpg\" alt=\"Many trees could not withstand the weight of the snow.- Image: EPA\" width=\"640\" height=\"450\" title=\"\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 640px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 640\/450;\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3846\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Many trees could not withstand the weight of the snow. &#8211; Image: EPA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Many <strong>companies and homes<\/strong> were able to be powered by these stand-by generator sets, and barely noticed the consequences of the <strong>fallen power lines<\/strong> and the resulting lack of electrical supply, so necessary in situations where temperatures are extremely low (so far, this was the coldest weekend of the year in the country).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3847\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3847\" style=\"width: 580px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3847 lazyload\" data-src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/3_stand-energy-inmesol-biggest-snowfall-past-10-years-santiago-de-chile.jpg\" alt=\"Photo credit: Mira Kemppainen\" width=\"580\" height=\"450\" title=\"\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 580px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 580\/450;\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3847\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: Mira Kemppainen<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 300,000 homes were affected by a power outage. Several hundred INMESOL generator sets are providing service across Chile. Most of this equipment are operating in stand-by mode and ensure power supply in case of mains failure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3844,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,39],"tags":[42],"categorias-smart-power-":[],"paises-":[],"class_list":["post-3849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ingles","category-news-generators-sets","tag-stand-by-generators-sets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inmesol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inmesol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inmesol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inmesol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inmesol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.inmesol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inmesol.com\/en\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inmesol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inmesol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inmesol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3849"},{"taxonomy":"categorias-smart-power-","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inmesol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categorias-smart-power-?post=3849"},{"taxonomy":"paises-","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inmesol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paises-?post=3849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}