A thousand people has demonstrated on Tuesday in Seville against the continuous cuts of light that have suffered for years, and that like high temperatures, they are more frequently in geographical extension. The unsustainable situation has been reflected in the rage with which families shouted against the energy distributor, Endesa, which they blame for not investing and thus prevent them from supporting 42 degrees without light at home. Last time last week, in full heat wave. And the problem is aggravated: if until now, they have now extended to areas of the Macarena, Triana and the historic center.
“We have been with daily cuts for two months, between two and seven hours, in the afternoons and nights. I have suffered several summers behind, but now it is much worse. My floor partner and I took refuge at our mothers’ house, but Sevilla is an oven. There is less and less green in the city, more cement and heat days are hell,” he details in the Mireya Torres protest, 34 years He lives in the Cerezo, an area of the popular neighborhood of La Macarena.
The last heat wave last week has been unbearable for thousands of families, who have seen how the thermometer exceeded 40 degrees for endless days while neither the air conditioning nor the fans started. Held at home, which have suffered high temperatures without light at home. The march, in which there were neighbors of localities who also suffer cuts such as San Juan de Aznalfarache, has crossed the Nervión neighborhood to end at Endesa headquarters. In other Sevillian municipalities such as Osuna, Villaverde del Río or Las Cabezas de San Juan, the nightmares of the Light Cuts have happened the last year.
“Endesa Criminal, steals and kills. Nationalization already,” said the head of the demonstration. The neighbors shouted slogans such as “guilty Endesa, the responsible board” or “We are workers, non -criminals.” Virtues Tristancho, neighbor of the San Jerónimo neighborhood, criticized: “We have had days with eight and nine hours of cuts, others with between three and five. But every day since mid -June.”
Endesa accepts that the situation is limit to many neighbors, but does not offer a permanent solution, only patches. The company blames the problem with drug trafficking, pregnant with marijuana plantations and that consume as 80 housing together. This despite the fact that the police ensure that some neighborhoods with cuts lack drug trafficking, a problem that causes cuts in other cities such as Granada or Almería. The loop is desperate for the neighbors because neither Endesa, neither the Board nor the City Council gives them hope to end the cuts of light enquistados every time the heat and cold, in summer and Christmas. The administrations, except Government Delegation, claim that the energy company does what is in its hand.
“Endesa has invested more than 13 million in these neighborhoods, with an average investment per client five times higher than the investment for more well -off neighborhoods in the city and has doubled the power in some areas where there are no new real estate promotions, or industries. Therefore, this additional capacity is related to fraudulent electricity consumption appropriate in much of these marijuana plantations inside the interior of homes,” spokesman
Meanwhile, in the Palmete neighborhood, Bernardino Forte was desperate this Tuesday at noon and saw how the calamity of being days and days without electricity is increasing: “My mother got up in the dark days and fell into her house, looks at her wounds [muestra una foto]. And my wife suffers apnea and needs oxygen to sleep and live in conditions. When I get to my mother’s house, they are all dripping with sweat, they don’t have a simple fan. Endesa is playing with the health of the elderly. “By his side, Carmen Rodríguez, claims:” The three or four hours that give you light is very little tension, the toaster or turns on. In June we have had up to five cuts a day, it has been infernal. ”
The Barrios Fart Platform, which mobilizes the neighbors, blames the electric investment distributor, in collusion with the Board and the City Council (PP). “Every time we mobilize, the cuts are reduced, we have it proven. We can demonstrate that the cuts of light are due to the lack of infrastructure. Endesa does not want to invest, it only looks for benefits, and the Board has a strategy nailed to the company, criminalize the neighborhoods,” protest the spokeswoman Toni Reyes. Juan García concludes: “The will to change Endesa is zero. There is a classism and contempt for the humble areas very evident. The Racanea Inversiones company and prioritizes: in the city you can not go the light in the Plaza de España with the iconic music festival or in the Palace of Congresses with the UN Summit.”
The City of Seville announced last week that gave land to the company to locate 12 new transformation centers in Cerro Amate, Torreblanca, South and North District. The mayor, José Luis Sanz, said Tuesday that he includes “totally” neighborhood claims. “It has no possible explanation that in the 21st century the city is suffering cuts of light (…) I don’t think there is a government that is so in contact with Endesa and pressing it as much as the current team.”
Hartos Barrios Rebate to the councilor: “They are the same 12 new transformers as always. The mayor [José Luis Sanz] He announces that he is going to meet with Endesa and we are funny, when he lies daily with Endesa, ”criticizes Víctor López. Sanz’s wife, Laura Díaz, is a company’s directive for two decades.
The Andalusian Ministry of Industry, Energy and Mines argues that on June 25 and July 3, its delegate in Seville held a meeting with the residents of the Amate and Cerezo neighborhoods. The Board did not invite the Barrios Fart Platform. “The Ministry is closely monitoring the investments that the distributor is executing throughout 2025. Given the new incidents recorded in other areas of Seville, such as Triana and Old Trustee, the Ministry will request an urgent report to Endesa,” says a spokesperson.
These cuts that leave in two the lives of so many families affect some 38,000 Sevillians. Endesa alleges that the cuts in the new affected neighborhoods such as the macarena are punctual and not chronic. “Invite Endesa to my floor and check if they are punctual,” Torres ironizes.
“We are abandoned, as if we were dogs. We are tired of being treated as garbage,” said a neighborhood leader in the demonstration on Monday in Torreblanca, which preceded the one that crossed the Nervión neighborhood on Tuesday.
