The government has reacted to complaints from users who have experienced power outages and has launched a harsh warning a Edesur, the concessionary company that recorded disruptions in its service involving more than 180,000 users. “Our wrist will not shake if that means having to terminate the service concession agreement of the electrical distribution in charge of the EDESUR company”, underlined this Sunday Flavia Royón, Secretary of Energy.
In a Twitter thread from severe tenor, the official reporting to Economy Minister Sergio Massa, anticipated measures ordered by ENREthe regulatory body of the electricity service, in the hands of the massist Walter Martello.
“I just tasked ENRE with initiate the related administrative acts resolve immediately, and definitively, this type of situation that repeat year after year“, reported Royón and attacked: “The ENRE will immediately give instructions to strengthen the teams to restore service and the verification of compliance with the presented summer plan will begin“,
The Economy official started a Twitter thread late Sunday evening. “We have reports that hundreds of families They were without electricity for days. They have one thing in common they are all EDESUR customers“, he contextualized, before launching the threat of the end of the concession for the company whose owners, the Italian Enel, have been trying to divest their assets in Argentina for months.
This Friday, given the strong heat wave that persists in the city of Buenos Aires and in the suburbs of Buenos Aires -this Sunday the thermometers marked 38.1° in Buenos Aires, the highest February record in 60 years-, the concessionaire came out to explain their stance on the cuts recorded in a statement.
“Due to a deficit in electricity generation, the system operator has asked us to stop the supply to 180,000 customers on a provisional basis until the electricity shortage is gradually restored,” Edesur had stressed at the time through social networks.
And after the carton he updates: “Following Sacme’s request to temporarily stop supplying 180,000 customers, we are working in the area of Florencio Varela and Berazategui to normalize the service. Let’s keep in touch“.
Already this Sunday, the company communicated that the electricity demand at 16:00, nationwide, registered at “historical record” for the antecedents of a similar day of the week. They were 25,676 MW of electricity consumption, which exceeded the threshold on Sunday 11 December 2021, when the figure amounted to 23,724 MW.
The massist idea that the state stays with Edesur
It had just been Martello, the head of ENRE, was the first to advance the possibility that the concession to Edesur be revoked. It was after the cuts recorded during the new year and the massist officer then did a I suggest going further on the role of the Government: “It is possible that the majority of Edesur’s shares are bought by the state‘ he postulated then.
“It is something that I personally raised in my previous role as ombudsman of the province of Buenos Aires, I raised the nationalization of the company. Politics will then have to discuss the question of resources,” said Martello, who has now received a mandate from Royón to act before the new cuts are registered.
Source: Clarin
