Electricity service begins to be restored after massive blackout

He electrical service began to be restored this Wednesday, March 1 at night, following three hour courtwhich affected the City of Buenos Aires, the suburbs and ten other provincesdue to a general failure in the interconnected system, which caused the massive blackout.

This new cut in supply caused the 40 percent of the country’s total electricity demand will be left without lightwhich is equivalent to more than 6 million homes, or to 20 million people.

The blackout affected more than 6 million homes. PHOTO: Telam

The Government asks that the origin of the blackout be investigated

Meanwhile, the Ministry of Economy of the Nation and the Federal Police filed complaints before the Federal Justice in which they request that investigate the origin of the massive blackout.

The complaints were filed in the federal court of Campana, in charge of Adrián González Charvay, who has jurisdiction in the area of Atucha Ilocated in the Buenos Aires town of Lima.

Through this complaint, Sergio Massahead of the economic portfolio asks “to arrest those responsible for the very serious events that occurred that day”, and that might “be included in the crime of fires and havoc”.

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The Government asks to investigate the origin of the blackout. PHOTO: Telam

For Massa there was “intentionality” in what was caused in Atucha I and the subsequent massive blackout across the country.

For their part, and from the Ministry of Energy, they attributed the origin of the failure to a fire in a fieldbut without specifying if the accident had been caused intentionally, as Massa hinted.

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Almost half the country in the dark for several hours. PHOTO: Telam

In several neighborhoods of the City and the Conurbano the light returned

In the City of Buenos Aires power returned in different neighborhoods such as Chacarita, Villa Urquiza, Colegiales, Villa Lugano, Patricios Park, Slaughterhouses, Palermo and Caballitoamong others.

Something similar happened in different areas of the suburbs: Vicente López, Tigre, Morón, Olivos, San Justo, Bernal, Quilmes, Don Bosco, Avellaneda, Gerli, Merlo, San Antonio de Padua, Ituzaingó and Greater La Plata.

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The blackout affected some 20 million people. PHOTO: Telam

Service was also restored in other affected provinces, such as cases of Mendoza, Córdoba, Jujuy, Salta, San Luis, Tucumán, La Pampa, La Rioja, Santa Cruz and Santiago del Estero.

On the other hand, little by little the service was normalized in different lines of metropolitan trainssuch as Roca, Sarmiento, Belgrano Sur and San Martín, and the same thing happened with the subways.

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No electricity in the middle of a heat wave. PHOTO: Telam

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