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Buenos Aires Power Largely Restored After Heat-Driven Outage Linked to Edesur Substation Failure

Regulators blame a failure at Edesur’s Bosques substation during extreme heat, citing dangerously thin operating margins.

Overview

  • By Wednesday morning, most service was back with remaining outages ranging from roughly 7,000 to about 19,000 users depending on the source.
  • Edesur said a fault at the Bosques substation cascaded across multiple sites and that service was brought back in stages.
  • ENRE reported cables running above 100% of nominal capacity and stressed transformers, underscoring limited room to operate under peak demand.
  • Official outage tallies fluctuated overnight, with the ENRE dashboard briefly nearing one million affected before revising to hundreds of thousands and then tens of thousands.
  • Hard-hit areas included Almagro, Recoleta, and Alejandro Korn, as the heat wave pushed late-night demand to critical levels.