Historic Blackout touched most of the country | Chronic

What appeared to be a rainy fathers day became a day of uncertainty as a result of an unprecedented power outage that affected almost every province of Argentina, as well as certain regions of Uruguay, Brazil and Chile. The government energy secretariat announced this morning that it would be "a failure of Yacyretá's transport system" and "who cut automatically, without human intervention".

From 7:07 this Sunday, a sudden power outage left much of the country in darkness. The first clarifications began around 9 am when the Energy Government secretariat explained that "The Argentine interconnection system (SADI) has collapsed", that caused "a mbadive cut across the country and in Uruguay."

Although they did not report the causes of the outage, the portfolio indicated that they had started with "the recovery in the regions of Cuyo, Noroeste and Comahue"; and who opened "the rest of the system continues with total recovery", who believes can "take several hours".

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The power outage had a direct impact on transportation. Because of the mbadive cut, the metro and Premetro lines and some rail services did not work. Upon returning from electricity, they resumed their activities, some with a delay and limited service.

In addition, the drinking water services of Aguas y Saneamientos Argentinos (AySA) and Aguas Bonaerenses (ABSA) in the interior of the province have been affected.

As power outages also affected San Luis, Santa Fe and Formosa, Sunday's elections in these provinces began with delays. The fourth province with elections is Tierra del Fuego, which has not had any interruption in its functioning and normally celebrates polling day.

After hours of uncertainty, the company Edesur announced that she had begun "the income from the production of electricity on the interconnected system of the federal capital and Greater Buenos Aires", where the service was restarted in Costanera factories, located in Costanera Sur; and at South Dock, Avellaneda.

Constitución, Liniers, Microcentro and a part of Recolecta, which helped restore service in the last minutes, helped restore service in the last minutes. "75 thousand customers"

Edenor, on the other hand, made it clear that they normalized in "gradual" supply in "the cities of San Isidro, Boulogne, Martínez, Loma Hermosa, San Martín, Tiger, Pilar, Las Heras, Hurlingham, February 3, Vicente López and La Matanza".

The cause of the breakdown would have been "a failure of Yacyretá's transport system", that caused "cut off automatically (without human intervention)", according to the secretariat of the government of energy.

"The percentage of loss was high given the weak timing of the demand, the rest of the generators could not compensate for the losses and the power-up process started from the most powerful points of the system, namely the Yacyretá, Chocón and Salto Grande, Transener opened the system and gives back energy to regulate the service "said the portfolio in a statement.