City of Buenos Aires and much of the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area (AMBA) experienced several large scale power outageswhich generated discomfort among neighbors and complications in transportation and basic services. The most shocking event occurred this Thursday, January 15when a technical failure in the network left without electricity nearly a million usersin the midst of peak consumption due to the heat wave.
On social networks, several Internet users expressed their discomfort at what happened, using everything from detailed complaints to ironic humor. In this second position, the libertarian legislator Lilia Lemoine He used his X account to express his anger comically. “I get the modem after 3 months… the power goes out. It’s the equivalent of when they gave you the Casio organ in Reyes and it came without batteries,” the deputy posted, sharing the image of the purchased device.
On the other hand, according to a statement from Edenora failure at the Morón Substation at the 220 kV level caused the disconnection of several high voltage lines. This led to the loss of some 3,000 MW of electrical powerwhich is equivalent to a substantial part of the demand on a day of extreme temperatures. The contingency generated interruptions in Buenos Aires neighborhoods such as Palermo, Recoleta, Belgrano, Núñez and Villa Urquizaand also in towns in the northern and western suburbs such as San Isidro, Tigre, Vicente López and Morón.
From the company They indicated that complete normalization was progressive and in stages in coordination with other actors in the electrical system. Edesurthe other distributor that operates mainly in the south of the city and the suburbs, attributed the failures suffered by its own users to a drag of the initial incident generated in the Edenor network, partially separating itself from the origin of the interruption.
In previous days there were also registered localized interruptions of supply in various neighborhoods of the City and Greater Buenos Aires, with reports of tens of thousands of users affected in sectors such as Almagro, Balvanera, San Nicolás, La Matanza or Lomas de Zamoraamong others. The distributors recognized that Electrical infrastructure faces challenges to support consumption peaksespecially on days of extreme temperature, and committed to work more closely with regulatory bodies to improve network resilience and accelerate emergency response.
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