Tag: Blackout in Buenos Aires

• Thursday, March 16th 2023 - 06:57 UTC

  Week-long power cuts hit 100,000 households in Buenos Aires

  

  Residents of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires (CABA) took to the streets Wednesday after days without electricity amid sweltering heat with no end in sight to their plight.

• Saturday, December 20th 2014 - 06:33 UTC

  Power cuts hit Buenos Aires as temperature rises

  

  Sweltering heat props up use of air conditioning. 'Specific failures' along the distribution line spark street, social media protests

• Saturday, January 4th 2014 - 06:46 UTC

  Argentina sanctions power companies for repeated outages that affected millions

  

  Argentina announced sanctions on electricity companies Edesur and Edenor following the power outages suffered by hundreds of thousands of citizens in Buenos Aires City and surrounding areas, amid a historic heat wave that brought stifling temperatures for 18 days.

• Thursday, January 2nd 2014 - 15:35 UTC

  New Year in Argentina brings: hikes in urban transport and fuel and promises of a capped basket

  

  New Year arrived in Argentina with much needed rainfall relief, but also with a hefty increase in urban transport fares, the same with fuel prices at the pump and the promise of a list of 200 products included in a price agreement with the county’s major supermarkets and retailers.

• Friday, December 27th 2013 - 05:28 UTC

  Blackouts continue in Argentina while government keeps threatening power distributors

  

  Blackouts continued in several neighborhoods of Argentina's metropolitan Buenos Aires area while protests increased including pickets in highways, attempts to set on fire power distributors offices or kidnap power companies' officers while the only resource from government has been to blame companies and threaten to take over utilities.

• Friday, December 20th 2013 - 05:49 UTC

  Argentina threatens to nationalize power companies because of the blackouts

  

  Argentina on Thursday threatened to nationalize utility companies Edenor and Edesur after power outages left large areas of the capital Buenos Aires and surrounding suburbs in the dark, just ahead of the austral summer. “If they are not willing to give people the service they deserve, we will be willing to take over that service,” said cabinet chief Jorge Capitanich.

• Wednesday, December 18th 2013 - 07:15 UTC

  Heat wave in Argentina collapses power grid: thousands with no energy or water

  

  People out in the streets banging pots and pans, or protesting burning tires and garbage containers in powerless neighborhoods, while an estimated 30.000 businesses in Buenos Aires City and metropolitan area are organizing demanding compensation for losses suffered because of the collapse of the power distribution system overwhelmed by an extraordinary heat wave with temperatures in the high thirties and low forties.

• Thursday, November 8th 2012 - 07:11 UTC

  Heat causes massive blackout and the collapse of Buenos Aires city

  

  A heat wave which reached 36 Celsius caused on Wednesday a massive blackout in Argentina’s capital with an estimated three million people suffering lack of power plus such emblematic sites as Government House (Casa Rosada), Congress and the posh district of Puerto Madero.

• Thursday, July 26th 2012 - 08:52 UTC

  Blackout in Buenos Aires plazas and public spaces until it pays the power bill

  

  The fountains in Argentina’s capital Buenos Aires emblematic Plaza de Mayo were left unlit Tuesday and Wednesday night, after electricity company Edesur cut off power due to the city’s government's failure to pay the bill.