A Buenos Aires power outage leaves over 600,000 customers
A power failure in Buenos Aires left hundreds of thousands of customers without electricity, shutting off traffic lights, stranding subway passengers and testing the Argentine
The power failure, coming as a heat wave ramped up electricity usage and strained the city's power supply, knocked several substations offline, according to Edesur, an electricity company in Argentina that serves parts of Buenos Aires and its suburbs. It said its technicians were racing to restore power.
“The current outage is due to a failure in two 220 KV high voltage lines of Costanera-Hudson which belong to the electricity distribution company Edesur. It's affecting the south of Buenos Aires City and Greater Buenos Aires,” read a communiqué from the Energy Secretariat on the afternoon power cut which started at 12:40 p.m.
Several power outages on Wednesday left some 620,000 users without electricity in Buenos Aires, including the government house, officials said, as the Argentine capital suffers a wind chill of 44 degrees and a yellow alert for 'extreme temperatures' is in effect. | JUAN MABROMATA / AFP
It's affecting the south of Buenos Aires City and Greater Buenos Aires,” read a communiqué from the Energy Secretariat on the afternoon power cut which started at 12:40 p.m. Edesur had suffered a similar blackout in the early hours of Wednesday, which stopped the subway, darkened traffic lights and left 622,000 people without power.
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