At 21:35, 100% of the country's electricity service was restored

"The electricity supply has been restored to 100%," informed the Secretariat of Energy at 21:35.

Secretary of Energy, Gustavo Lopetegui, explained today at a press conference that the failure had occurred in the coastal transportation system and that it was not There was no warning anticipating the total reduction in supply.

"What we know right now is that at 7:07, there was a failure of the shoreline transportation system, faults that occur with diligence in the Argentine system as in any other system it is not abnormal ".

However, he pointed out that the events that triggered the high court proceedings were abnormal.

"What is abnormal or extraordinary and can not happen is the chain of subsequent events that caused the total disconnection."

Lopetegui baderted that "the total disconnection occurs automatically, it is the computers that manage the system that do it" and explained that this happens "when they detect imbalances that can cause greater damage and in a few milliseconds, the system is disconnected to protect it. "

"That is to say, there was no warning here," acknowledged the Secretary of Energy, adding that companies "will now have ten to fifteen days to give a full report on the reasons "that generated this gigantic power outage.

From these reports "we will take the steps that must be taken so that it does not repeat itself and adopt sanctions", if any.

He explained that the reduction in supply "has occurred at a time when there was no greater demand" and pointed out that when there are "peaks" ", the energy reserves are 11%" and this morning we were at 20% ".

With regard to the causes of the failure, Lopetegui explained that he "was working on all the badumptions", although he acknowledged that the possibility of a cyberattack or a "cyber attack" could be a problem. sabotage "is not the priority".

The secretary pointed out that the regulatory framework provides for sanctions in the event that they are responsible for what happened and that they are enforced by "ENRE and the Secretariat at the time". energy".

Finally, he pointed out that in the past four years, 6,000 million US dollars had been invested in power generation.

As a result, after 14 hours of widespread failure, the energy supply was fully standardized according to reports from the Energy Secretariat throughout the day.

In the morning, President Mauricio Macri addressed the problem via his Twitter account. "This morning, there was a power outage all over the country due to a failure of the coastal transportation system, the causes of which we can not yet determine," he said, adding: "We are working for everyone to have energy as quickly as possible."

He also promised that "the service would be restored for all users over the hours" and described the event as an unprecedented case. "This is an unpublished case, which will be the subject of a thorough investigation," he concluded in his posts on this social network.