The government will give details about the massive blackout at a press conference

After the mbadive power outage that affected much of the country, the government will give a press conference on the details of the heavy interruption of service. The official communication will be from 15 and will be in charge of the Secretary of the Government of Energy Gustavo Lopetegui.

The outage occurred after July 7 and a few hours later, the service began to be gradually restored. From the energy they reported that recovery has been enabled of the Argentine interconnection system (SADI), after the collapse of the system. The service is gradually re-established in the different production units of the regions, with the aim of standardizing the supply.

Previously, the Energy Secretariat had indicated that the reduction would have been caused by a failure of the transport system from Yacyretá, automatically and without human intervention. While the dam has clarified that the origin of the interruption in the Argentine interconnection system (SADI) was generated "of an event in an area that is foreign hydroelectric plant, the causes of which have not yet been identified. "

According to official information at 12:15 Approximately 3700 MW was found standardized, with an expected demand of 15,000 MW, while the restoration process of the electricity network in the coastal region continues from the hydroelectric plant of Salto Grande. The demand of the province of Entre Ríos has been completely standardized, Santa Fe has provided a demand of 500 MW and in Buenos Aires, the covered demand is of the order of 1300 MW.

While the Cuyo region (Mendoza and San Juan) has a standard demand of 500 MW (about 60%). Although the reconstruction in the Comahue region is still delayed due to failures in the black start-ups of the power stations at destination (El Chocón and Planicie Banderita), the Patagónico system is standardized at 100 MW. The restoration of the service is carried out gradually, according to the commissioning of the thermal power stations.