Almost 60,000 homes suffered power outages in the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area on a Saturday afternoon in which the temperature exceeded 38 degrees, while the providers Edenor and Edesur estimated the normalization of the service between 11 p.m. this Saturday and 2 of Sunday.
According the website of the National Electricity Regulatory Entity (ENRE)at 19.55 in In the Edesur concession area there were 46,280 households without electricity supply while in the Edenor concession area there were 13,442at a time when, according to the National Meteorological Service, the temperature in the region was 33.2° and the thermal sensation rose to 36.9°.
Within this framework, at 2:00 p.m. in the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires had reached 38.6 degreesthe highest temperature in 117 years for this time of year, a phenomenon that had not occurred since 1906, according to the SMN.
In the Edesur area, the Buenos Aires districts most affected were Almirante Brown (4,759), Avellaneda (4,328), Esteban Echeverría (4,797), Ezeiza (6,008), Lomas de Zamora (4,475) and Presidente Perón (507); next to the Buenos Aires neighborhoods of Balvanera (3,018), Villa Lugano (2,152) and Villa Riachuelo (1,012).
In the Edenor area, the Buenos Aires districts most affected were Pilar (4,939), José C. Paz (608), and Escobar (193); also the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Belgrano (460).
the website of ENRE reported that for the Edesur concession area the restoration of the service is estimated between midnight and 2 a.m., while in the Edenor area it is expected after 11 p.m..
