Overview
- The Tolosa transformer station caught fire in the early hours of Monday, August 17, damaging the medium‑voltage cell room and cutting power to large parts of La Plata.
- EDELAP said it restored service to about 99% of affected customers within 48 hours by deploying 16 low‑ and medium‑voltage generator groups and reconfiguring feeders.
- The provincial regulator OCEBA ordered EDELAP to produce SCADA logs, protection-operation chronologies, maintenance records and transformer test results within 24 hours as part of a sumarial administrative investigation.
- OCEBA instructed the company to set up a claims procedure and to compensate residential and commercial users for outages and material losses, and it will incorporate judicial pericias and the Fiscalía file into its review.
- Authorities warn that network reconfiguration and backup generator deployment may cause intermittent cuts in coming days and residents should use EDELAP’s official channels for outage maps and help while investigators assess causes and potential sanctions.