Fireworks balloon causes power outage in Buenos Aires at New Year’s party

A pyrotechnic balloon was the cause of the power outage in several neighborhoods in the southern part of the city of Buenos Aires minutes after midnight, when hundreds of thousands of people celebrated the new year in the capital Argentinaas reported this Sunday by the company Edesur, responsible for the concession of the service in the area.

Edesur technicians “detected that a pyrotechnic balloon entered minutes after midnight in the inner courtyard of the Perito Moreno Substation“, what “caused a short circuit that caused the protections to act”, which put two high-voltage network transformers out of service, the company reported on its Twitter account.

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The problem in the high voltage network generated a cut at 00:23 (local time) that affected several neighborhoods of the Argentine capital and surprised the citizens in the midst of the festivities.

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According to the data of the National Electricity Regulatory Entity (ENRE), more than 158,000 homes suffered from a lack of electricity supply at the beginning of 2023.

The service was normalized in stages, once the Edesur teams were able to rebuild the affected area within the substation, the company explained.

Before Edesur explained the cause of the power outage, the ENRE controller, Walter Martelloannounced on his Twitter account that the regulatory body is going to “penalize the company.”

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”Edesur left hundreds of thousands of users without electricity in the middle of the New Year celebrations”, Martello tweeted and although he acknowledged that the penalty “It is not the solution”, indicated that “is one of the tools available to the ENRE” to fulfill his “control function”.

Edesur is one of the two largest electricity distributors in Argentina, which operates in Buenos Aires and its populous periphery, and is controlled by the Italian group Enel, which last November announced its intention to divest from the South American country.

Source: Elcomercio

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