New Year arrived and with the beginning of 2023 in the middle of the summer season, the power outages did not wait. According to estimates, some 400,000 users of the electricity distribution company Edesur they ran out of power just 20 minutes after 00 hours of the current day.
The company Edesur has a concession for 3,300 square kilometers. Its electrical network has an extension of 32,500 kilometers and supplies more than 20 thousand Gigawatts per hour, this represents 20% of the requested energy of the entire Argentine territory. The distribution company communicated what users perceived: “A problem in the high voltage network generated a cut at 00:23 that affected some neighborhoods in our concession area in the Federal Capital.”
This interruption of the electrical service affected Buenos Aires neighborhoods of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, among them Caballito, Flores, Liniers, Mataderos, Almagro and Versalles. For its part, during midday this Sunday, the National Electricity Regulatory Entity (ENRE) reported that 186 users were still without electricity within the territory of Edesur.
In writings of the electric company They explained that “company technicians detected that a pyrotechnic balloon entered minutes after midnight in the inner courtyard of the Perito Moreno Substation. This caused a short circuit that caused the protections to act, leaving two transformers of the high voltage network out of service”.
Injured by fireworks in CABA
So far, at least 13 entries of people who suffered damages due to the use of fireworks at the end of the year celebration in CABA have been registered. Among the wounded, It was reported that none of them registered serious injuries, so those who were affected did not require hospitalization or surgery.
In the Hospital de Quemados Dr. Arturo Umberto Illia, which is located in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Caballito, five citizens entered, two children and three adults who were injured by manipulating fireworks. For her part, Analía Aloisio, head of duty at the Quemados hospital, stressed that “for the moment there were no injuries caused by fires in homes, vehicles, or people at risk of losing their eyeballs.”
