And massive power outage It left a large part of the country in the dark since 3:59 p.m., following “several failures in the interconnected system” as a result of a fire in a field “disturbing a 500 kw high-voltage line that connects Campana with General Rodríguez.”
At 7:50 p.m., the company Transener declared the “end of risk” for him massive blackout and specified that at 19:04 the network was normalized throughout the province of Buenos Aires; at 19:30 the service was reestablished in the Central area of the country; at 19:39 Whose was already without cuts; and at 20, the Northwest was normalized.
The provinces of the Litoral and the Northeast were not affected, clarified from the public service concessionaire company for the transport of high-voltage electricity, the agency reported. telam.
Before the incident, sources of the Secretary of Energy They remarked that “in the event of an imbalance, the system responds immediately, causing generation to be disconnected for its own protection. As a consequence of this interruption, the provinces of Santa Fe, Córdoba, Mendoza, San Juan and the South of the Northwest are affected,” they indicated.
The problem began at 3:59 p.m. and shortly following 6:00 p.m. the service began to be restored “in some areas” that were left in the dark, they said, while the risk of fire continued on the affected 500 kw line.
“It is necessary to clarify that the Atucha I nuclear power plant did not have any problems, it is only stopped for safety reasons until the system is reconnected and can deliver the energy it generates once more. Not being able to inject its generation for external reasons, the security protocol indicates that the plant be shut down,” they explained from that Secretariat.
The company Transener SA reported that today “at 3:59 p.m., the service of 3 High Voltage Lines that link the Transformer Stations of General Rodríguez and the Litoral area occurred, as a result of a field fire”.
“In high demand conditionsthe disturbance generated oscillations in the System, generating the opening of additional links to the previous ones with the consequent restriction in demand,” the company added in a statement.
The company added that together with “Compañía Administradora del Mercado Mayorista Eléctrico SA (cam) launched his Contingency Plan and began its work to restore the supply according to the established procedures”.
What is Transener
Transener is a public high-voltage electricity transportation concessionaire company that directly operates and maintains 85% of the high-voltage network and supervises the remaining 15% of the entire Argentine national territory.
He fire “caused the protections of the electrical system to work and the way of protection is to turn off what cannot be sustained”, which affects Santa Fe, Córdoba, Cuyo, South of the Northwest”, the sources added.
And they graphed: “The system was split in half. The northeast zone (NEA, Buenos Aires, Entre Ríos and North of Santa Fe from Yacyretá is being regulated, and the south zone, the Comahue Dam, which covers Patagonia, La Pampa, Neuquén, Río Negro”.
The Ministry of Energy reported that this incident affected “different generation plants, including Atucha I”.
Electricity service begins to be restored following the massive blackout that affected 20 million people
“Failures were recorded in the interconnected system,” the sources reported and added as “cause of the above, different generation plants, including Atucha, left (the system),” said those sources.
“There is a frequency failure that expels a part of the generation. This generation center that is Atucha came out as they say in this jargon of the system. As Atucha came out, the Central Puertos, for example, also came out,” the sources added.
from the company Nuclear Power Argentinain charge of the operation of the three nuclear power plants in the country, Atucha I, Atucha II and Reservoirindicated to this agency that “25,000 Mw were being generated and 10,000 Mw fell, it is a network problem”.
The Government asks to investigate the intention of the fire
The Ministry of Economy of the Nation and the Federal Police filed complaints before the Federal Justice to request that the massive blackout of light in a large part of the country be investigated.
The complaints were filed in the Federal Campana Court, in charge of Adrián González Charvay, who has jurisdiction in the Atucha I area located in the Buenos Aires town of Lima.
As a result of the complaints, the magistrate gave intervention to the federal prosecutor of Campana Sebastián Bringas to establish the first measures of evidence. .
The complaint, which bears the signature of the portfolio holder, Sergio Massa, calls for “arresting those responsible for the very serious events that occurred that day” and that might “be included in the crime of arson and havoc.” For Massa, there was “intentionality” in what was caused in Atucha I and the subsequent massive blackout throughout the country. .
“As it is public knowledge, in the last hours two large fires were registered on islands of the Paraná River Delta. They take place in the southern area of the Delta, more precisely in the area of Campana, province of Buenos Aires,” the presentation added. of Economy. .
The provinces affected by the blackout
In Mendozathe Mendoza Provincial Electrical Regulatory Entity reported that the service was affected in the province.
In saint Louis Power outages were also reported in different parts of the province. Edesal, the company in charge of the province’s electricity supply, reported that “there is no voltage record at the national level” and called to “take precautions” and disconnect all electrical devices.
From Catamarca, the company Energía Catamarca SAPEM, informed that the cut is due to the fact that TRANSNOA SA lines are out of service. From the company they indicated that they requested information on the causes of the service cut.
Santa Cruz It was also affected in its entirety while the blackout also impacted the entire province of Santiago del Estero.
The massive blackout affected different points of Salta Capital and Tartagal, as reported by the Electricity Distribution Company of Salta (Edesa). The company reported through social networks that some distributors went out of service.
The city of White Bay, in the south of Buenos Aires, registered problems this followingnoon with the supply in the electrical energy network from the National Interconnected System. The Southern Distributor Energy Company (EDES) indicated that it has already begun “to gradually restore the service,” the company added in a statement.
In the Buenos aires citythe Miter, Sarmiento, Belgrano Sur and San Martín railways circulated with delays and cancellations as a result of blackouts, while there are similar problems on the different subway lines.
Massive power outage: the Government believes it was intentional and requested that Justice investigate it
The Buenos Aires Ministry of Health reported that the massive blackout affected most of the hospitals located in the southern area of the City of Buenos Aires. However, its Guards, critical areas and operating rooms are operating normally through the supply of generator sets, while the only hospital that required the use of its own electric generator was Santojanni. .
More than 100 intersections with traffic lights stopped workingthere were passengers evacuated in the subways and, at the worst moment, the Firefighters worked to rescue people trapped in 18 elevators, the Government of the City of Buenos Aires reported in a statement.
Airport sources, for their part, confirmed that there were microcuts at the Buenos Aires Aeroparque and at the Ezeiza station that did not interrupt services.
On Twitter, testimonials and claims piled up with the hashtags SinLuz, Atucha and Blackout.
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