Record broken for second day running

THE record of electricity consumption in the Balearics has been broken for the second day running, when it peaked at 817 megawatts at 6.43pm yesterday on the Majorca-Minorca system. A spokesman for the electricity firm GESA said that consumption was 9.5 per cent higher than the same month last year.
Consumption in the Ibiza-Formentera system was 136 megawatts at 9.49pm yesterday, a new record for June and 14.3 per cent higher than the previous June record set in 2002. But it is not an all-time high - the record stands at 142 megawatts on August 19 last year. Consumption so far this month is 16 per cent more than the same period last year.