:quality(85)//cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/infobae/PZ55S2K6HZFNTDFHUDCPPXXEI4.jpg "Power cuts: the government has instructed the ENRE to criminally denounce the entire Edesur board of directors 1")
Amid the wave of protests against power cuts in different parts of the city of Buenos Aires and the suburbs, the Energy Secretariat has instructed the National Electricity Regulatory Entity (ENRE) to file tomorrow a criminal complaint against the members of the board of directors of Edesur administrators for the offenses of embezzlement, fraud to the detriment of the public administration and abandonment of people.
Similarly, from the field of Energy, the regulatory body had also been ordered to submit a technical report on the state of the company’s concession to the Bicameral Commission for the Control of Public Service Concessions for the purposes of advise, if necessary, to terminate the Edesur concession.
Yesterday, ENRE issued a press release informing that it will send to Congress the results of this general audit in which the quality of the company’s service delivery was assessed.
The letter was posted on Twitter by Walter Martellocontroller ENRE, who expressly specified that “the possible expiration of the concession” of the electricity distribution company is being assessed.
“The National Electricity Regulatory Entity (ENRE) informs that under Resolution ENRE No. 237/2023in the next 90 days, it will increase to Honorable Congress of the Nation and to the competent authorities, the technical report resulting from the in-depth audit ordered by the aforementioned resolution and which evaluates the performance of the supply of the public electricity distribution service by the company Edesur SA and the degree of compliance with the obligations contained in the concession contract,” the statement read.
“The current audit considers the operational and managerial assessment of the distributor that resulted in the lack of attention and timely form to user complaints and the replacement of the service, shortcomings that, beyond the global indicators and quality individuals, denote underlying issues that may affect the continuity of the dealership», closes the letter.
Despite recent rains they calmed the intense heat wave which has affected the metropolitan area of Buenos Aires (AMBA) in recent weeks, more than 100,000 users of the region were without light around 9:00 p.m. this Wednesday, according to official data provided by the National Electricity Regulatory Entity. In the Floresta district of Buenos Aires, a strain between the police guarding the headquarters of Edesur and the neighbors who claim after days without electricity in the area.
In the city of Buenos Aires, in particular, the offices of Edesur located in the district of Forest They were also a point where a major blackout was achieved at the intersection of Avenues Juan Bautista Alberdi and Avenida Lacarra. There, as the day progresses, tension mounts between the police and the neighbors: bonfires are recorded on the asphalt in front of a building guarded by the troops.
The crossing of Avenue Diaz Velez and Jerónimo Salguero, in the neighborhood of Almagro in Buenos Aires is also a point where residents have chosen to complain about the lack of electricity. As they indicate, in the region they have been without electricity for more than five days. There are also cuts in General Paz Avenue and Dellepiane Highway, but also on the side of General Paz and Ricchieri.
In this sense, only in the territory operated by Edesur there was a total of 100,790 customers Without service in the neighborhoods of Buenos Aires Mataderos, Villa Lugano, Flores, Liniers, Mataderos, Monserrat, Parque Chacabuco, Villa Crespo, Villa Riachuelo, Almagro, Balvanera, Boedo, Caballito, Constitución, Floresta, Monte Castro, Nueva Pompeya, San Telmo , Villa del Parque, Villa Devoto, Villa Real, Villa Soldati and Villa Santa Rita.
About the Province of Buenos AiresThe neighborhoods of Almirante Brown, Avellaneda, Berazategui, Esteban Echeverria, Ezeiza, Lanús, Lomas de Zamora, Quilmes, San Vicente, Florencio Varela and President Perón are affected.
As it concerns Edenora total of 1,853 users were without electricity due to medium or low voltage service interruptions in the Buenos Aires neighborhoods of Palermo, Agronomía, Belgrano, Chacarita, Colegiales, Núñez, Recoleta, Saavedra, Villa Ortuzar and Villa Pueyrredón.
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