70 thousand users without electricity in Buenos Aires and red alert due to high temperatures

Buenos Aires / Argentina – After 24 hours of the massive blackout, almost 70 thousand users in the City of Buenos Aires and the Buenos Aires suburbs continue without electricity supply.

The causes are due to a grassland fire that affected the 500 kw high voltage line that connects Campana with Gral. Rodríguez and generated a “load rejection of the electrical network of the National Interconnected System”, as reported by Nucleoeléctrica Argentina SA For safety , the Atucha 1 power plant went out of service.

The National Electricity Regulatory Entity (ENRE), reported through its website that 57,283 Edesur users and 12,143 Edenor users were without service. It is expected that it will be restored after midnight, depending on the situation in each district. In the last few hours there were also brief outages in different neighborhoods and towns, in the midst of an unprecedented heat wave for this time of year.

In total, there are almost 70 thousand users without electricity in the and Suburbs, after the massive blackout that occurred the day before, and which affected ten other provinces. During the day on Wednesday, more than 20 million people throughout the country were severely affected by power outages.

The context worsens due to high temperatures. On a new day of oppressive heat, the red alert is in effect in the Federal Capital and surrounding areas. Thus, this Thursday afternoon, at 1:00 p.m., CABA registered 38°C, the highest record since 1906.