Historic failure: after 14 hours, the service has been restored throughout most of the country

As a result of the mbadive blackout that has affected all of Argentina and some neighboring countries, the Governmental Energy Secretariat has indicated that "Today at 07:07, there was the collapse of the Argentine interconnection system (SADI), which resulted in a mbadive power cut across the country and which also affected l & # 39; Uruguay. "

"At 20:15, there is 1500 standard MW (about 98% of the total expected demand in the country.) All parts of the country are connected by the high voltage transmission system." The remaining cuts are mainly due to: the local problems encountered in the transformer stations attended by technicians from different companies, mainly in the Comahue region ", said Energy.

In addition, he explained: "In the NOA area, normalization started from the transport system, partial reductions continuing in the provinces of Salta, Jujuy, Tucumán and Santiago del Estero." The standardization of the missing demand is carried out during the commissioning of the production facilities and in compliance with the transmission limits of the network ".

Argentina, Uruguay and part of Brazil and Chile do not have access to electricity because of a "mbadive failure". The break occurred at 07:06 in the morning.

"The secretary of the Government of Energy said that the power failure that occurred today at 7:07 am would have been due to a failure of the transport system of Yacyretá.This produced the cut automatically ( without human intervention) "the bank said in a statement. Thus, he dismissed in principle any theory that indicated an intentional action to shatter the system.

"The percentage of loss was high given the time it took and the low demand, the other generators could not compensate for the losses, and the power-up process has already started from the most powerful in the system, the Yacyretá, Chocón and Salto Grande hydropower plants, Transener has opened the system and is under power again to be able to regulate the service "concludes the brief statement.