Lights out in Cochabamba

Our one hour of lightlessness saw (or maybe didn't see) almost all of the lights in the house and outside turned off. From the vantage point here in San Jacinto, some 12 km to the east of the "casco viejo" or central area, it is hard to tell if much of Cochabamba is following suit. We are just outside of the suburbs and so it is normally pretty dark at night. The 3/4 moon is most of the light here on the property.

The statistics for Bolivia show an amazingly small amount of consumption compared to the industrial north (and São Paulo too). Something over half of the electricity in the country comes from hydro-power. So Bolivia is pretty green compared to most of the world. The Andean countries have relatively more hydro resources and thus less dependance on carbon based energy. But in the northern range of the Andes there has been less rain this year and so there has had to be rationing of power in Venezuela and Ecuador. Not fun.