Around midnight, more than 40,000 homes were still without power, after a day of high temperatures.
In the midst of the heat wave, there are almost 40,000 people who are without electricity supply in the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area (AMBA), on a day where the temperature exceeded 34°C and with many users without power since 10 pm on Wednesday, according to the supplier companies themselves.
He National Energy Regulatory Entity (ENRE) reported after 11 p.m. on Thursday that there were 38,788 Edesur users without power supply and 4,579 from Edenoras a consequence of the high temperatures that exceeded 33°C. The number of people affected decreased towards the end of the day but remained at more than 30,000 between both companies towards 11pm.
Among the users of Edesur in CABAthe main affected are the neighborhoods of Avellaneda Park, Villa Crespo and Villa Lugano, Balvanera, Caballito, Constitución, Flores, Mataderos, Monserrat, Nueva Pompeya, Chacabuco Park, Retiro, San Cristóbal, San Nicolás, San Telmo.
From Rivadavia Avenue to the southern area at Primera Junta and up to Olivera Avenue, the blackout was practically total since 9 p.m. on Wednesday. Authentic wolf’s mouths were observed in several Buenos Aires streets that did not have electricity supply, adding to the problems that this situation entails in residential areas full of high-rise constructions and with complaints of lack of water in several areas.
While in the PBA, in the Lomas de Zamora partythe town of Banfield and the rural area.
This Thursday a peak in consumption was reached taking into account that temperatures reached 36° maximum, with minimum temperatures close to 25°C, which kept demand levels at extreme levels.
Authorities and specialists in the energy area expect that this Thursday will become one of the days with the highest demand for electricity in recent years, and the import of the fluid from neighboring countries has not been ruled out.
The heat is expected to especially affect the center and north of Argentina, and for this reason the administration of Javier Milei could resort to import of electricity from Brazil, Bolivia either Paraguay, just as he did on other occasions.
The purchase of gas from Chili and all of this has as its main objective avoid a system crash that causes power outages due to lack of generation.
In this context, the The Ministry of Energy demanded that the distributors Edenor and Edesur increase the number of crews by 30% that they took to the streets and that they had distributed diesel generators to deal with any eventual crisis.
Source: Ambito
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