On Sunday, June 17 in the morning, a massive outage left areas across the country without power, even as far as Uruguay. While the causes of the blackout are still unknown, President Mauricio Macri reported that the case will be thoroughly investigated.” We are working so that everyone can have energy as soon as possible,” he said. Gradually, the light was returning in several homes but there are still dozens of users waiting for the service. As reported by the official website of the ENRE (Ente Nacional Regulator de la Electricidad), at noon about 32,000 users were without light in the metropolitan area: 28,987 corresponding to Edesur and 3,821 to Edenor.
Minutes later (at approximately 1300 hours), it was known that 51,302 Edesur users were out of supply and 3,835 were from Edenor. Yesterday on social media, the distributor’s official account had ensured that “the supply to 100% of customers affected by the failure in the Argentine Interconnection System (SADI) was restored”. While Edesur confirmed that they continue to “work on resolving point cases that stem from the massive failure of the interconnection system.”
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As far as we could see, the most affected areas in the province of Buenos Aires are the san Vicente, Quilmes and Lomas de Zamora party. In Capital Federal, Monserrat and San Telmo, they are the most disadvantaged neighborhoods, with more than a thousand users without light. Nationally, Tierra del Fuego is estimated to be the only province in which the usual service was maintained. For his part, the Secretary of Energy of the Argentine Nation, Gustavo Lopetegui, called what happened “a very serious event that should not have happened, it should not happen”.
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In Uruguay, 98,857 users were registered who are still without light, representing 6.62% of customers. This was unveiled by the National Administration of Usinas and Electrical Transmissions (UTE) on its official site.
