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The Government has announced that there will be scheduled power cuts during the summer - Infobae
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El Gobierno anticipó que habrá cortes de luz programados durante el verano
Lo afirmó el jefe de Gabinete Guillermo Francos, quien responsabilizó a la gestión anterior por la falta de inversiones y el retraso en las tarifas. Dijo que buscarán acuerdos con sectores productivos e industriales
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September 23, 2024
This was stated by Chief of Staff Guillermo Francos, who blamed the previous administration for the lack of investments and the delay in tariffs. He said that they will seek agreements with productive and industrial sectors.
Guillermo Francos anticipó cortes de luz
Dijo que en el verano habrá interrupciones programadas
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He said there will be scheduled outages in the summer.
Chief of Staff Guillermo Francos said today that there will be power cuts during the summer due to high demand and said that the Energy Secretariat is planning in advance a schedule of power outages. The official blamed Kirchnerism for the lack of investment and the delay in rates.
"It is assumed that if a very hot summer comes, there may be a very high demand for electricity and unfortunately there has been no investment in recent times , which means there will be a lack of generation and some cuts will have to be scheduled , especially making some agreements with the productive sectors, industrial sectors," said the Chief of Staff.
Francos said that this is one of the many problems inherited by Javier Milei 's administration : "It is a situation that has been going on for years and that must be addressed seriously. I think that investments must be made, of course. And eventualities must be addressed; one cannot be subject to improvisation ," he added in conversation with Radio Mitre .
Protests against a power cut in the Floresta neighborhood, in March 2023
The head of the ministers also defended the rate increases , and stated that it will be necessary to continue “making the cost of services more realistic” in order to reduce subsidies and that this, in turn, will help to lower inflation: “If rates do not increase, the cost must be paid by the State. The cost of operation must always be paid, if it is not paid by the consumer, it must be paid by the State , because if not, the generators will not generate. If there is no reasonable generation, obviously no one can be asked for investment either,” he said.
He added: “Rates must be increased because otherwise the State will have to subsidize them, and the State's policy is to end subsidies so as not to generate debt, not to generate emissions and ultimately not to generate inflation, which is the fundamental objective of the government .”
At the beginning of September, Infobae had anticipated that the government was working on a resolution from the Energy Secretariat to have an “emergency plan” for the electric service.
The aim is to mitigate the risk of massive power cuts during the coming summer. The roadmap will include short- and long-term actions.
Daniel González, Coordinating Secretary of Energy and Mining
The risk of blackouts is nothing new in Argentina, and it is causing fear in government offices about the possible political impact that supply shortages would have after the sharp increase in tariffs applied this year. There have even been disputes between officials in the economic area. Both transport and distribution companies point out that this is a problem in generation that “exceeds” them.
The Secretary Coordinator of Energy and Mining of the Ministry of Economy, Daniel González , acknowledged last Tuesday during his visit to the event for Shell's 110 years in Argentina that "it will be a complicated summer" in terms of energy and that since his arrival in July he has been working with a committee on measures to mitigate potential problems in the electricity supply.
In a report published in June, the Wholesale Electricity Market Administration Company (Cammesa) warned that the total amount of energy produced locally and imported from neighboring countries will not be enough to supply the peak demand expected for the summer, during the period from February to March 2025. Cammesa estimated that there is a 19% probability that generation will fall “short” and the country will suffer blackouts.
Energy demand could reach 30,700 MW, some 1,000 MW more than the historic record of 29,653 MW reached in February 2024. The official focus is on large urban centres, where more than 50% of electricity is consumed: the Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires (AMBA), Mendoza and Córdoba .
Francos announced that Aerolíneas flights will be transferred to other companies
File photo - Aerolineas Argentinas planes are seen parked at the Jorge Newbery domestic airport in Buenos Aires, Argentina. REUTERS/Agustin Marcarian
In the context of the union conflict at Aerolíneas Argentinas, the Chief of Staff reinforced the Government's position in the face of union threats: "We have a firm decision not to allow anyone to try to impose conditions that are impossible ," he declared.
Negotiations to sell the company had been announced during the week, but now Francos revealed that they will take a preliminary step: “When Aerolíneas begins to stop and suspend flights, we will begin to make those flights available to other companies so that we can replace the enormous percentage of flights that Aerolíneas Argentinas has.”
For the Chief of Staff, the number of routes operated by the flag carrier "creates a huge disruption," so they will begin to "balance a little the number of flights that each company has."
“We are going to go to a system of many companies that can cover a territory as extensive as ours. What cannot happen is that one man says 'flights are cut' and it turns out that thousands of people are left without flying , thousands of companies without work, thousands of businessmen and tourism entrepreneurs who cannot provide their service. This cannot happen, the economy cannot be subject to a man who arbitrarily makes the decision to stop the company,” Francos concluded.
