-
The high temperatures prevent the cables of the installations from cooling down and this causes the collapse of the electrical network
-
The Argentine government has asked officials and industries to telework to lower their rate of energy consumption
The heat wave that has been plaguing Argentina for a few days continues to generate power supply problems in the country. At least 100,000 people suffered yesterday power outages in the metropolitan area of Buenos Aires Due to the high energy demand motivated by the high temperatures that have ended up generating the collapse of the electrical system. It is not the first time that it happens, since similar episodes have been taking place in recent years.
As I pointed out two days ago THE NEWSPAPER, the city of Buenos Aires already became an oven last Tuesday when 41.1 degrees were reached, and the first power outages occurred. A similar heat episode has not been known for 62 years.
According to data from the official agency Ente Regulador de la Electricidad (Enre), a total of 82,526 users were affected by blackouts in the area that is the responsibility of the electricity company Edesur and 17,220 to the distributor Edenor. “The continuity of hot days, with minimums that do not drop below 24 degrees, causes network cables cannot be cooled and that they work to the limit of their possibilities,” Edenor said in a statement.
Additional generators
For its part, the company Edesur explained that it placed various generators “Four Packs” at different points of the AMBA to reinforce the electrical system in the absence of power. “These are larger generator sets, which can feed an entire medium voltage cable and several chambers,” the company explained.
Both companies are in charge of supplying more than 5.3 million customers, of which 99,746 are without supply, despite the fact that the government Argentina took a series of measures to prioritize residential electricity.
In addition to decree teleworking for state employees since last day 13, the Argentine president, Albert Fernandez, requested the industrial sector that reduces energy consumption, fearing that historical records of electrical use will be exceeded.
Related news
As reported by the Administrative Company of the Wholesale Electricity Market, on this day the a maximum of 26,637 megawatts, close to the peak reached last Thursday with 27,550 megawatts.
The residents of the Buenos Aires area had already suffered massive and prolonged blackouts at the end of December and the beginning of this month, where the hottest days of the Buenos Aires summer are marked by failures and insufficiencies of the electrical network.
Reference-www.elperiodico.com