Overview
- A power cut that began around 4 p.m. Thursday left several central La Plata blocks dark and disabled traffic lights at Plaza Moreno, disrupting evening traffic and commerce.
- Edelap said crews removed branches from aerial lines and declared the area normalized at 5:30 p.m., but many neighbors and businesses reported service still out in multiple blocks.
- Overnight crews installed mobile generators near the intersection of 9 and 56 that began operating around 1–1:30 a.m., restoring electricity for many but producing loud noise and intermittent supply the next morning.
- A separate planned daytime cut by Edesa in the Atocha/Santa Lucía area forced businesses such as Frigorífico Brunetti to close for hours and claim losses they described as 'millions,' prompting calls to schedule maintenance at night.
- Locals link these incidents to a pattern of recent failures including the Aug. 17 Tolosa substation fire, they cite high bills and repeated outages, and they blame the distributor companies and provincial regulator OCEBA for inadequate response.