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Montevideo, March 29th 2025 - 13:57 UTC

Tag: Edesur

  • 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.

  • Monday, February 12th 2024 - 10:32 UTC

    Explosion leaves key Buenos Aires neighborhoods powerless for hours

    Edesur said service was restored to 80% of the affected users

    Some 30,406 households were still without electricity in the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires (CABA) after an explosion Saturday of a generating substation of the Edesur company in the strategic Caballito neighborhood in the Argentine capital left some 60,000 users powerless for hours, after which service was gradually restored, the (National Entity Regulating Electricity (Ente Nacional Regulador de la Electricidad - ENRE) reported Sunday.

  • Tuesday, March 21st 2023 - 09:47 UTC

    Argentine electricity company under intervention for 180 days

    Edesur was deficient in the service and it was still moving on with its sale plans, Massa explained

    Following seemingly endless power cuts in the Buenos Aires area, Federal Economy Minister Sergio Massa ordered the intervention of suppliers Edesur and appointed Jorge Ferraresi as the company's new controller for a period of 180 days.

  • Monday, January 16th 2023 - 19:29 UTC

    Argentina has most bizarre regulations, leading businessman tells Harvard

    Starace insisted Enel's decision to leave had to do with Argentina and not with Moscow's measures regarding energy in Europe

    Francesco Starace, CEO of Italy's Enel, the company owning a majority of Buenos Aires electricity suppliers Edesur, said last week during a convention at the Harvard Business School, that they would be leaving the South American country because it “has the most bizarre regulation in the world.”

  • Wednesday, December 23rd 2020 - 09:44 UTC

    Huge blackout affects Buenos Aires City for several hours

    Power company Edesur said about one million people in the south-central area of the city were affected. The outage was traced back to a fire at a substation

    A huge power cut in the Argentine capital Buenos Aires caused a blackout to hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses on Tuesday and brought metro lines to a standstill. The blackout also occurred when the country's medicine and pharmaceutical regulator extended an emergency authorization to the Pfizer BioTechN vaccine.

  • Monday, June 17th 2019 - 09:55 UTC

    Massive blackout hits Mercosur; Argentina and Uruguay in the dark for six hours; major investigation promised

    The impact was particularly frustrating in recession hit Argentina because Sunday was Father's Day and brisk consumer and transport activities were expected<br /> <br />

    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.

  • 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.

  • Thursday, November 8th 2012 - 07:11 UTC

    Heat causes massive blackout and the collapse of Buenos Aires city

    Massive traffic jams and the subway and some train lined knocked out

    A heat wave which reached 36 Celsius caused on Wednesday a massive blackout in Argentina’s capital with an estimated three million people suffering lack of power plus such emblematic sites as Government House (Casa Rosada), Congress and the posh district of Puerto Madero.

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