With a strong heat wave in the country, almost 200,000 users of the Edesur company in the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area were without electricity this Friday.
Complaints multiply on social networks, while the company admitted that the operator
"asked it to interrupt the supply"
.
According to the official website of the National Electricity Regulatory Entity (ENRE), after 3:30 p.m.,
176,944 users in the south of the City of Buenos Aires and the suburbs were without power
.
While from the Edenor company, those who did not have electricity were 6,372.
"Due to a deficit in electricity generation, the system operator asked us to temporarily interrupt the supply to 180,000 customers until the lack of energy is gradually restored," Edesur said on social networks.
In addition, Edesur remarked that "at 1:45 p.m. we had a historical demand record in our concession area that reached 4,181 MW, according to CAMMESA data."
Some of the cuts started in the morning.
Within the city of Buenos Aires, the affected neighborhoods are Almagro, Balvanera, Boedo, Caballito, Parque Chacabuco, Liniers, Mataderos, Nueva Pompeya, Villa Lugano, Monserrat, San Telmo, Versalles, Villa Santa Rita, Retiro and San Cristobal.
While in the suburbs, the cuts were registered in Berazategui, Florencio Varela, Avellaneda, Esteban Echeverría, Ezeiza, Lomas de Zamora, Quilmes, Almirante Brown, Presidente Perón, San Vicente and Lanús.
Another removal of subsidies and the electricity bills will go up in February
Electricity bills will go up in February.
It is for the third part of the removal of subsidies that the Ministry of Energy is carrying out.
The increase will fall on households with higher incomes (called N1) and also on those with medium pockets (called N3).
Energy is studying the impact that this reduction will have on bills.
Sources in the sector estimate it between 20% and 30%, but the final decision will be made by the Executive Power and until now it has not been communicated.
“The last removal caused an increase of 30%.
Now I estimate that it will be the same, but the final word rests with the Government”, point out three specialists consulted.
The Government had been subsidizing the price of electricity until September.
In other words, households did not pay the cost of this service.
The subsidy covered more than half the price of electricity consumed by households.
The electricity bills contain the cost of electricity itself, the margin of the distribution of the companies that take it to homes, and taxes.
The amount of light is governed by the monomic price.
At the end of 2022, it was $11,700.
By mid-year, households were paying less than half ($4,600).
The difference, of $6,100, was covered by the Government through subsidies to Cammesa.
This company is the wholesale administrator of the electrical system, the one that pays the generators.
Since October, the Government removed 20% of the subsidies.
In other words, customers began to receive less subsidy and pay a little more for electricity.
In December, Energía removed another 40% of subsidies.
Now comes the last take away.
The cost of electricity affects more than half of the bill, at least in Buenos Aires and the suburbs.
Of the total, 5 million households will no longer be subsidized and many others will lose part of the aid, but will maintain the bulk.
At least until April 2023. The lower income segments will preserve the subsidies.
DB
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