The controller of the National Electricity Regulatory Entity (ENRE), Walter Martello, stated that the agency is working to establish the causes of the blackout that on Sunday, the first day of the year, affected users in the city of Buenos Aires and anticipated that The necessary fines will be applied.
In dialogue with Télam Radio, Martello maintained that “on the first day of this year there was a blackout of significant magnitude in the City of Buenos Aires, leaving more than 200,000 people without electricity at 0.21 hours.”
He assured that the ENRE made “a series of decisions that have to do with first determining the causes beyond the company’s version” and pointed out that “at this time” -during Monday morning- an ENRE team was “at the substation where the fault occurred”.
According to the auditor, they will quickly initiate “everything that has to do with administrative actions in the event that there has been a situation that arises from the company’s contractual obligations and apply the necessary fines.”
In this sense, he maintained that “fines are not the only way” but pointed out that it is a way of “protecting users against the lack of investment by the company, especially Edesur, which has accustomed us to this type of events” .
“In some cases, (electric power cuts) were justified by the very high temperatures, but this was not the case” of what happened on Sunday, in the early hours of 2023.
“We are working from the moment of the event so that these situations do not repeat themselves and companies understand that they must treat us as users and not as clients based on their dominant and monopolistic market positionMartello concluded.
