Shutdowns in Buenos Aires

Since the stifling heat appeared in Buenos Aires, there has been many shutdowns in different neighborhoods and localities of Buenos Aires. Some houses of Buenos Aires have been up to nine and even ten days without electricity at their homes. Others have been suffering shorter shutdowns, but itinerants which is really bad for the house appliances.

Some of the neighborhoods and localities of Buenos Aires that have had no electricity during the past few weeks are: Saavedra, Palermo, Núñez, Caballito, Once, Almagro, Boedo, Balvanera, Villa Crespo, Villa Devoto, Villa Urquiza, Floresta, Flores, Villa Mitre, Villa Santa Rita, Monte Castro, Villa Real, Paternal, Almagro, Villa del Parque, Recoleta, Barracas, Villa Ortúzar, San Isidro, Temperley, Vicente López, Ituzaingó, Castelar, Morón, Esteban Echeverría, Lomas de Zamora, Pilar, Berisso, La Plata, Luján, Villa Ballester, Lanús, Bernal, Florida, Turdera, Sarandí, Haedo, Olivos, Adrogué, Ramos Mejía, San Martín, Santos Lugares and Avellaneda.

The companies that are in charge of providing power services in Buenos Aires (both the City and the Greater Area) have informed that there will continue to be shutdowns unless the high temperatures continues. The reasons for the continuous power cuts in Buenos Aires were the high amount of consumption of energy, due to the use of air conditioners and those electrical appliances. The power levels of consumption in Buenos Aires have beaten some new records (and the infrastructure is not prepared for it).

The electrical power suppliers also added that there are special teams working on the affected areas. Still, there are too many neighborhoods of Buenos Aires that have no power and there are not enough people to work on all the areas.

In some areas of the City and the Greater Area of Buenos Aires there have been some street cuts and groups of people complaining about the power cuts and how they are affected by it (specially the older people that live in buildings and have no water and can’t go down the stairs, or people who need to keep their medication on a low temperature).

Even though it is not a solution and this should be treated thoroughly so that it doesn’t happen every summer, people are starting to go on vacations and the city and Greater Area of Buenos Aires will begin to be less crowded soon; so, power consumption will go down and power cuts should begin to decrease… Still, let’s hope this ends soon.