Blackout in Argentina left Buenos Aires and the country's southern suburbs without electricity

Published at: 05/03/2025 07:49 PM

A failure in high-voltage power transmission lines affected thousands of users this Wednesday in various sectors of the city of Buenos Aires and its urban area, official media reported to the press, the SWI portal reported.

According to the sources consulted, the power cut is due to “a fault in two Costanera-Hudson 220 kilowatt high-voltage lines, part of the distribution system of the company ESESUR”, which provides services in the southern area of the Argentine capital and its suburbs.

The city has experienced a day of intense heat, with temperatures exceeding 30 degrees Celsius, in the middle of summer. According to the first reports, 622,000 users are affected, the Russia Today website highlighted.

In addition, the blackout has caused problems in traffic due to the exit of traffic lights and in electric railway services.

EDESUR has confirmed that the failure in the high-voltage electrical transmission affects several of its distribution substations and assured that its technicians “are working to restore service”.

As part of the failure, two power generation plants decreased their contribution to the system.

“There are 800 megawatts of outage of service and 2,500 megawatts of generation out of service,” said sources from the Ministry of Energy, who clarified that there are no problems in servicing the rest of the Argentine Electricity Interconnection System (SADI) normally.

The National Electricity Regulatory Authority (ENRE), reported that it is “investigating to proceed in accordance with the regulatory framework with regard to fines and sanctions.”

The local press notes that the second blackout even affected the facilities of Casa Rosada, the seat of Government; the Congress; and the public transport stations surrounding those buildings.

For the time being, local authorities have deployed a special operation to address traffic and security issues, in the midst of the energy contingency.

Mazo News Team