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What will the scheduled power cuts that the Government is preparing for the summer be like in the midst of the energy emergency? - Infobae
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Cómo van a ser los cortes programados de luz que prepara el Gobierno para el verano en medio de la emergencia energética
El objetivo de los funcionarios es que no haya interrupciones forzadas del servicio durante los picos de consumo, por eso van por un esquema voluntario para grandes usuarios. Habrá medidas en generación, transporte, distribución y grandes empresas
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September 25, 2024
The aim of the officials is to avoid forced interruptions of service during peak consumption, which is why they are going for a voluntary scheme for large users. There will be measures in generation, transport, distribution and large companies.
The government will publish in the next few days the final plan with which it hopes to avoid massive power cuts during the next summer (EFE)
The Government will publish in the next few days the final plan with which it hopes to avoid massive accidental power cuts during the next summer , when there will be a combination of a jump in consumption and a lower supply of energy . The preventive measures that the Energy Secretariat has in mind include better remuneration for electricity generators, incentives for distributors and a kind of payment to large companies that voluntarily reduce their energy consumption .
This last point is the one that resonated most in the “Summer Emergency Program 2024-2025 .” The intention is that businesses and industries with consumption greater than 300 kw, in principle, make “voluntary” cuts or reduce their consumption in exchange for a remuneration that will be received through Cammesa. In any case, Energy has not yet communicated the details or informed business entities of its plans.
This path was acknowledged on Tuesday by the Coordinating Secretary for Energy and Mining, Daniel González : “In the next few days the Energy Secretariat will introduce a series of market-based measures to encourage as much as possible the generation that we will need in the summer. We are working on it together with distribution, with transmission, within the scope of Cammesa. Also in this resolution we will introduce an incentive for the management of demand from large industrial users.”
Daniel González, Coordinating Secretary of Energy and Mining
"We believe that this will mitigate the possible impacts in the short term, this summer and the next. But at the same time we are trying to manage the long term, which is what matters to us," the official added.
Regarding the risk of massive blackouts , González said: “With maximum transparency, we are trying to make people aware of what we know. That the system has no power reserve, that we are at the limit and that there could be situations in which blackouts could occur. We are taking care of it and managing it.”
Energy Secretary Eduardo Rodríguez Chirillo said this morning that the government does not plan scheduled power cuts for residential users during the summer and thus ruled out the possibility of a measure of that type as applied in previous decades. The official explained that the objective is to encourage voluntary reduction of consumption by large companies , which will be offered financial compensation if they reduce their energy demand in the most critical months.
"There will be no scheduled power cuts, a return to the rotating power cuts of the 80s, of 88. I lived through that when I was a kid and in the 80s with Alfonsín . But none of that is going to happen, it is not being considered and we do not believe that it will happen at all," Chirillo said in statements to Radio Mitre , referring to the situation that the country experienced several decades ago, when power cuts were frequent.
The official clarified that the Government 's priority is to avoid any forced interruption of the electricity supply to households and that the focus is on large industries that consume significant amounts of energy. "At no time is there talk of scheduled power cuts for residential areas ," he emphasized.
The government acknowledged in a working document that there is a risk of "black out"
The plan that the Government has been preparing for months aims to get companies to voluntarily reduce their energy consumption during the months of greatest demand, which coincide with the highest temperatures of summer. “Demand is offered to those who voluntarily want to reduce their capacity to contract power and thereby relieve the grid,” explained Chirillo .
This strategy will involve large companies , particularly in the industrial sector, adjusting their production or energy use during the months of December to February, in exchange for a financial incentive . “An industrial company or a large company, from now on, is advised that it can arrange itself so that in December, February it does not produce as much, or reduces the load,” he explained. In exchange, the Government will offer them a remuneration for those who decide not to contract so much power .
The Secretary of Energy clarified that this plan is completely voluntary and that it is not an imposition by the Government. “I want to emphasize the voluntary nature, because when we are used to talking about scheduled power cuts, we think of the imposition of the authority that tells you: 'from 8 to 12 your power will be cut off'. This is something else, it is different,” Chirillo stressed .
Another point that the Energy Secretary mentioned in the interview was Argentina 's dependence on energy imports to cover peak demand during the summer. "We are making arrangements to be able to count on the energy that Brazil usually provides us," he said. Argentina plans to import 2,300 megawatts of energy from Brazil and also to continue negotiations with Paraguay to ensure a greater supply from the Yacyretá hydroelectric plant .
