Over 60,000 Buenos Aires residents remain without power in Recoleta and Palermo after a massive outage caused by damage to cables yesterday.
The local power company, Edesur, announced that 35,000 residents regained power earlier today, while La Nación report saying that “with luck” power will be completely regained by tomorrow. However, Edesur continues to stress that the problem is very complicated and that they are not sure when the issue will be entirely resolved.
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Residents in several neighbourhoods continued to report power outages this afternoon (Photo: acanohayluz.com.ar)
The collaborative website ‘Acá No Hay luz‘, in which users can report power outages in their building and street, also showed ongoing problems in Recoleta and surrounding areas this afternoon.
According to an Edesur press release, the incident that caused outages occurred minutes after midday yesterday (13th October) at the corner of Av. Figueroa Alcorta and Vaz Ferreiro, where Telmex was working with a tunnel-boring machine.
“The actions of this machine, which works on public roads, caused severe damage by drilling into two sets of three 132kv high voltage power cables, leaving the Azcuénaga and Paraná substations without power,” Edesur’s press release stated.
Today, the government opened a legal case against Telmex for causing the large power outages.
Rafael Llorens, the legal and technical sub-secretary of the Urban Planning Ministry, who opened the case against Telmex, called the company’s actions “irresponsible.”
He also used the moment to attack City Mayor Mauricio Macri, claiming that it is “unacceptable that the Government of the City of Buenos Aires does not control and regulate companies contracted and authorised to carry out works in the district.”
Edusur told Clarín this morning that they plan to place 60 large, mobile generators in Recoleta to help regain power for some affected peoples, but as of now little change has been made to the situation.
The company says it continues to work in order to resolve the issue.
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