New Rains Stall São Paulo Power Repairs, 650,000 Still Without Electricity

Overview

• Enel’s dashboard on Friday afternoon showed outages ticking back up from 633,000 to about 648,900 with new showers, including roughly 475,000 cutoffs in the capital.
• The company says about 1,600 crews are working and some areas require complete network reconstruction with new poles, transformers and cabling, so no completion date is set.
• Hard‑hit municipalities still face large proportional losses, including Juquitiba at about 39% offline and Embu das Artes above 22%, with tens of thousands still without power in Cotia, Santo André and São Bernardo.
• FecomercioSP estimates at least R$1.54 billion in lost revenue for commerce and services over two days, and more than 400 flights were canceled before airport operations largely stabilized on Friday.
• Political pressure intensified as São Paulo’s mayor urged federal intervention, the governor opposed extending Enel’s concession, regulators tracked the response, and Embu das Artes’ mayor staged a protest camp at an Enel office.