:quality(85)//cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/infobae/MWEM36CQGKL5KY5TTASIXD46QI.jpg "More than 52,000 users are still without power and service has yet to be restored to various points in CABA and the province 1")
The massive power cut across the country yesterday is still impacting the routine of thousands of people. It is that, although the service of the high voltage line of the interconnected system has already been restored and has been operating normally since 7:50 p.m. Wednesday, more than 52,000 homes were still without electricity due to breakdowns in the medium and low voltage. lines provided by distribution companies.
In the Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires (AMBA), some 45,000 users They continued this morning without electricity in different parts of the suburbs of Buenos Aires and in certain neighborhoods of Buenos Aires.
According to the website of the National Electricity Regulatory Authority (IN D), at 9:10 a.m., a total of 40,024 users of Edesur remained without supplies, while in the concession area of Edenor 5,897 users with power cuts were recorded.
In different parts of the province of Buenos Aires, the consequences of the blackout persisted at the same time, but with a lesser impact of 6,000 users concerned.
At the distributor Edelap, some 2,833 consumers registered problems during the matches of La Plata, Ensenada there Magdalene. The Eden company, for its part, has registered 4,874 powerless users in jurisdictions such as Drawer, Bell, General Villegas, Daireaux there Santa Coloma.
Also according to data from the Provincial Energy Control Agency (Oceba), EDES published some 186 power cuts in the district of White Baywhile EDEA detected 167 users affected by the shutdown of the supply of silver seaparty of General Pueyrredón.
Santiago YanottiNation’s undersecretary of energy, said on the radio The Web that the Argentine interconnection system (SADI) had recovered three hours after the massive outage. However, he acknowledged that there are problems in the “low voltage installations” provided by the distribution companies, for which “there are neighborhoods and places without service”.
Therefore, Yanotti suggested that users make “claims to distributors” because, probably, for these damages it is necessary to “do manual repair” regardless of what happened in the high voltage lines. which is not what happened yesterday under high tension. “Today we are going to have people without service. The important thing is that people call the distributor to complain,” he recommended.
As of yesterday, electrical service was already normalized in most provinces. In general, each district was able to restore the power supply a few hours after the electrical incident, among them, Cordobaone of the main jurisdictions concerned in number of users.
“The Provincial Committee for Civil Protection reports that the power supply system is restored throughout the province,” the government of Cordoba reported, minutes before 9:00 p.m. Wednesday.
Yesterday, the company Transener declared at 7:50 p.m. the “end of the risk” due to the massive power cut which originated in a field fire which from 3:59 p.m. “disturbed a 500 kw high voltage line that connects Campana to General Rodríguez.” In the last hours, the authorities have sought to identify those responsible for the incident, which they believe was sabotage.
Among the effects of the outage, one of the generators which left the interconnected system as a safety measure was Atucha I, the nuclear power plant located a few kilometers from the fire. Typically, in the event of an incident of this nature, the power stations have backup devices that disconnect them when traffic on the national network is obstructed.
As the Undersecretary explained Santiago YanottiAtucha will take time to return to 100% operational capacity.
“Atucha worked very well but now only injects inside 48 hours. It does not go out suddenly, but gradually with systems of backup, it lights up little by little and after it enters (in the interconnected system), the power it injects requires a few days until it reaches 100%, but the important thing is that there were no failures”, a- he mentioned in a comment to GlobeLiveMedia.
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