About 40% of Argentine households were reported to have been left powerless Wednesday afternoon amid unprecedented heat following several failures in the interconnected system stemming from a fire that disturbed a 500 kw high voltage line that connects Campana with General Rodríguez in the province of Buenos Aires, according to local media.
Argentina has opened an inquiry into what caused a massive blackout that left nearly 50 million people without power, Energy Minister Gustavo Lopetegui said on Monday.
A massive blackout left tens of millions of people without electricity in Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay and parts of Chile and southern Brazil on Sunday. The Argentine president called it an “unprecedented” failure in the countries' interconnected power grid.