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Tag: Argentine System of Interconnection

  • Wednesday, December 18th 2013 - 07:15 UTC

    Heat wave in Argentina collapses power grid: thousands with no energy or water

    People out in the streets banging pots to protest (Photo: DYN)

    People out in the streets banging pots and pans, or protesting burning tires and garbage containers in powerless neighborhoods, while an estimated 30.000 businesses in Buenos Aires City and metropolitan area are organizing demanding compensation for losses suffered because of the collapse of the power distribution system overwhelmed by an extraordinary heat wave with temperatures in the high thirties and low forties.