The small municipalities of Catalonia continue to have electricity and telecommunications outages when the weather worsens, one year after the great blackout. In Molló, the City Council also describes a very specific paradox, because kilowatts pass through the municipality and, even so, the supply does not reach the scattered homes.
On March 15, wind gusts exceeding 100 km/h left the municipality incommunicado for a day and a half. In some isolated houses, the lack of service lasted up to 48 hours and 112 became inoperative.
Molló links repeated cuts to fear and population loss
Josep Coma, mayor of Molló, explained that this incident did not surprise the council. The population, he added, lives with a sense of vulnerability that did not exist before, also in second homes.
Since then, the mayor fears that the repetition of similar episodes will end up taking its toll on the municipality. He warned that it can cause population loss and reduce the area's competitiveness.
On March 15, firefighters could not attend 112 from Molló.
"It's paradoxical because many kilowatts pass through our municipality, but we just see them pass and that's it" - Josep Coma, mayor of Molló
The Generalitat de Catalunya has not responded to the formal complaints filed by the municipality and the Mancomunitat de la Vall de Camprodon. The only action planned by the electricity distributor consists of reinforcing a section of the existing line, a measure that the City Council considers insufficient because the infrastructure will remain overhead and exposed to snow and wind.
Endesa limits the breakdown to storms and a still pending improvement
Endesa sources questioned that there is a serious supply problem in the consulted municipalities. Instead, they attributed the main outages to storms and episodes of violent weather from the end of 2025 and the beginning of this year.
During the general blackout, Molló recovered the electrical supply at two in the afternoon thanks to its proximity to France and the high-voltage towers. That advantage did not resolve the usual outages, because the interconnection cannot be locally transformed to low voltage.
The Catalan administration and the distributor have rejected several times deploying an alternative system due to its cost and complexity. The municipality is located at one end of the territory and has few subscribers, two factors that have weighed on those rejections.
Coma claimed minimum and basic guaranteed services and said they are not asking for a hospital next to the door. The mayor added that the municipality is increasingly less prepared to face emergencies or climate change.
Endesa maintains a three-year investment plan to improve equipment, validated, supervised, and authorized by the Generalitat de Catalunya.