Mauricio Macri talked about the power outage: "This is an unpublished case, which will be the subject of a thorough investigation"

President

Mauricio Macri

he talked about
mbadive power failure
touched the whole country during the morning by a
fails in the electrical interconnection system.

At around 2 pm, Macri expressed on his Twitter account the failure that affected the entire country in the morning and said that this reduction was "due to a failure of the coastal transport system, whose causes are not yet known. ". we can specify. "We are working so that everyone can have energy as quickly as possible," he said.

"At this point, the situation of 50% of users is normalized.After a few hours, the service will be restored for all users," he added.

"This is an unpublished case that will be the subject of a thorough investigation," he concluded.

At 15, the Secretary of Energy, Gustavo Lopetegui, will give a press conference to give more information.

The power outage

The failure of the electrical interconnection system prevented all the country's light from getting up and affected neighboring Uruguay.

The government secretariat to Energy said that "the collapse" had occurred at 7:07 local time (10:07 GMT). The electricity company Edesur also reported the incident.

Social network users said the reduction had also affected Paraguay and Brazil, although the operator of the Brazilian power system said it did not affect the country.

The mbadive cut affected the operations of trains, subways and even governor elections in the provinces of Santa Fe, San Luis, Formosa and Tierra del Fuego.

"The cases are under investigation and are not yet determined," said the Secretariat. "The recovery has already begun in the regions of Cuyo, NOA (northwestern Argentina) and Comahue and the rest of the system is opening up to continue the full recovery, which should take few hours, "he said.