CFE restores 100% of electricity supply in Acapulco after Hurricane Simón

The Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) declared 100 percent of the electricity supply in Acapulco restored after Hurricane Simón passed through, Reforma reported on October 10, 2026. The cyclone left 65,078 users in Guerrero without service, equivalent to 4.5 percent of the state's users.

The hurricane hit the Pacific coast on October 8 and affected 13 municipalities in Guerrero, among them Acapulco de Juárez, Coyuca de Benítez, Ometepec and San Luis Acatlán, according to the report that CFE general director Emilia Calleja Alor presented at the morning press conference on October 9 and that Infobae covered. The damage included the flooding of the Puerto Marqués substation, which was de-energized, a 115-kilovolt (kV) high-tension line, 11 medium-tension circuits, one branch line and 10 poles, according to La Razón. The effects were concentrated in a region where the transmission network feeds both the port and the Costa Chica, a corridor with high exposure to hydrometeorological events.

CFE reported 90.57 percent progress in less than 12 hours and deployed 2,316 electricians, 300 cranes, 726 light vehicles, 17 off-road vehicles, 85 emergency generators, 113 lighting towers and four helicopters in Guerrero, Michoacán, Colima, Jalisco, Nayarit and Sinaloa. In the Jardines and Pie de la Cuesta neighborhoods, where a landslide on the Acapulco-Zihuatanejo highway damaged 10 poles, service was restored to 99 percent at 16:30 on October 8 and to 100 percent through the electric grid on Friday the 9th, López-Dóriga Digital reported. As of October 9, 6,135 users were still without service in areas with landslides that required machinery to open dirt roads, La Razón added. Reforma noted that residents of the port reported outages in at least 10 neighborhoods on the same day as the announcement.

Civil Protection kept the alert for intense rains in Jalisco, Colima, Michoacán and Guerrero and set up command centers in Puerto Vallarta, Cihuatlán and Manzanillo, according to Infobae. The next measurement point is CFE's reports on the users who remain without service in the Costa Chica.

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