The government has confirmed when the light will be restored throughout the country

Undersecretary for the Electricity Industry, Santiago Yanottihe confirmed it the service is being restored across the country after of the widespread power outage that occurred this afternoon, as a result of the burning of the pasture that affected the power lines of 500 MW in the Campana-Gral corridor. Rodriguez.

“The service has been established satisfactorily so far and we have not found any errors. As long as it’s like this, he’ll be back in a few hours. If there is an error, we will report itbut the affected users will be much less,” he specified in an interview with TN.

However, he emphasized that no real assessment can be given with regard to the estimated time for the effective return of the light.

In the same vein, Yanotti said that “it may happen that the national system is restored, the 500 MW lines, the generators, but even so it remains a house or neighborhood without light because the resulting damage could be ua fuse or in any component of any installation energy distributor from the area. This is where it is important that a person submits a request to your company“.

The blackout on this occasion did not have the proportions of the one that happened in mid-2019, on Father’s Day to be exact, because Cammesa, the electricity market management company, made changes to the prevention procedures in case of major events. “That’s why we lost 40 percent of the lawsuit, not 100 percent like back then,” he added..

How does light return to earth?

The most pronounced declines were in greater Buenos Aires, in the interior of the province of Buenos Aires, Litoral, NOA, the central region, Comahue and Cuyo.

Provinces included in NOT they had a drop from 2100 MW to 800 MW. He GBA it went from 10,000 MW to at least 5,000 MW. With a recovery that will reach totality in a few hours.

Region Center It had a complete reduction in electricity demand, with a drop of 2,000 MW, although it maintains advanced energy recovery. Whosemeanwhile, it had a similar decline, with a slower recovery.

The service was restored in Patagonia and in the cities of the interior Province of Buenos Aires, NEA and Comahue. He Coast remained unchanged from the changes that occurred this afternoon.

How long will nuclear power plants take to produce electricity?

From Nuclear Regulatory Authority (ARN) They confirmed it to El Cronista nuclear power plants are still not online and with a service exit, Atucha and Embalse nuclear power plant. Its inclusion in the electrical system will take about 40 hours from shutdown.

On the other hand, the undersecretary for electricity said that the return to normality of the system is faster with hydropower plants or thermal power plants that of nuclear facilities.

Massive power outages across the country: what happened

AND major power outage happened this afternoon in various regions of the country due to important failures of the Argentine Interconnection System (SADI)which is why generators such as Atucha I and Central Puerto stopped their functions as a precaution, actually affecting the waves on electricity distribution companies from various parts of the country.

Industry sources said Chronicler several failures in the interconnected system were recorded. This was caused by a a fire from burning pastures that engulfed three 500 kw transmission lines which connects Campana with Gral Rodríguez, a fact which had to resort to shutting down the electrical system preventively. The information was confirmed by the undersecretary for the electrical industry Santiago Yanotti.

The fact is that the power line is “cut in half” and the authorities are working on restoring the system. Oscillations in demand caused by the failure of the fourth voltage line threatened demand in different parts of the country, as well as voltage fluctuation affecting regional lines.

The power outage occurred in the Central Region (which includes Santa Fe, Córdoba, Cuyo and South NOA). The northeastern zone (NEA, Buenos Aires, Entre Ríos and north of Santa Fe from Yaciretá) is regulated, as is the southern zone, Comahue Dam, which covers Patagonia, La Pampa, Neuquén, Río Negro.

It was because of that Various production power plants have suspended their services as a precaution: “There has been a frequency failure that is knocking out some of the power generation. This generation center that is Atucha has ‘gone’, as has Central Puerto and others.”

“There was a 40% drop in production due to system interconnection problems. Atucha I produces just over 300 MW, and the reduction across the country was over 10,000 MW. It wasn’t because of Atuche I,” they repeated for Chronicler from another supervisory body for electricity production, given the preliminary version that appeared in various media that the failure of the nuclear power plant caused the drop in demand.