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  • Wednesday, March 5th 2025 - 20:11 UTC

    Buenos Aires under second mass blackout in a day

    Even the Casa Rosada was hit by the power outage

    A second massive blackout hit the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires (CABA) and parts of the so-called Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area (AMBA) Wednesday after a first outage at 5:50 am affected some 550,000 Edesur users in the neighborhoods of Balvanera, Barracas, Boedo, Caballito, La Boca, Monserrat, Parque Patricios, Recoleta, Retiro, and San Nicolás as well as in the municipalities of Avellaneda, Berazategui, Lanús, Lomas de Zamora, and Quilmes, bordering the country's capital. Edelap, the energy distribution company of La Plata, was also affected.

  • Saturday, December 20th 2014 - 06:33 UTC

    Power cuts hit Buenos Aires as temperature rises

    Shortage of electricity not uncommon in BA as heat strikes

    Sweltering heat props up use of air conditioning. 'Specific failures' along the distribution line spark street, social media protests

  • Saturday, January 4th 2014 - 06:46 UTC

    Argentina sanctions power companies for repeated outages that affected millions

    Minister Julio De Vido making the announcement

    Argentina announced sanctions on electricity companies Edesur and Edenor following the power outages suffered by hundreds of thousands of citizens in Buenos Aires City and surrounding areas, amid a historic heat wave that brought stifling temperatures for 18 days.

  • Friday, December 20th 2013 - 05:49 UTC

    Argentina threatens to nationalize power companies because of the blackouts

    Capitanich: if they are not willing to give people the service they deserve, we will be willing to take over that service

    Argentina on Thursday threatened to nationalize utility companies Edenor and Edesur after power outages left large areas of the capital Buenos Aires and surrounding suburbs in the dark, just ahead of the austral summer. “If they are not willing to give people the service they deserve, we will be willing to take over that service,” said cabinet chief Jorge Capitanich.