The National Government analyzes taking its load operational management from the electricity distributor Edesur, without this implying the nationalization of the companyand for this he requested an urgent meeting with the company. Likewise, the company could be fined $1,000 million for the lack of supply in recent days.
“It could be an intervention of management without affectation of capital. The ENRE is working on a proposal with the Ministry of Energy,” said sources quoted by the Télam news agency.
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The measure that is under analysis in principle I would not understand the cancellation of the company’s concessionin which the Italian firm In it owns most of the shares.
Massa submitted a report to the President prepared by the ENRE on the Edesur service with axis in the contractual breaches from the electricity distributor.
What does the ENRE report say?
walter martelagency controller, does not prefer the arguments offered by Edesur in a request to justify the power cuts that in the last few days affected hundreds of thousands of users in the Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires (AMBA).
“Today the Edesur company of the Enel group publishes a requested referring to the extraordinary situation of high temperatures of the day Friday. The graph is from a few minutes ago, that is, five days later and 20 degrees less in temperature,” Martello said, quoted by Télam.
This is how he referred to the graph published by the company where it was shown that at 8:10 a.m., 15,000 Edesur users were still without powerwhen the temperature did not reach 23 degrees.
In the request, Edesur maintained that “February was the hottest in the last 60 years” and added that “last Friday the 10th, at 1:45 p.m., the company obtained a historical record of energy demand of 4,181 megawatts (MW)”.
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And he assured that “at 1:54 p.m. the operator of the high voltage system of Greater Buenos Aires (Sacme) asked Edesur to cut off customers, after informing that the generation of energy for the southern zone of the Buenos Aires suburbs was insufficient”.
“Product of the Sacme order, preventive cuts were made to some 180,000 customerswhich is equivalent to 250 MW, between 2:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m.
And he added that “after this hour, Nearly 37,000 customers remained without supply associated with damages caused due to the heat wave, which were recovering the supply throughout the afternoon and night.
“Cammesa, the operator of the Argentine Interconnection System (SADI), contribution that did not request any cut in any of the areas or regions of the country given that the peak was operated with optimal reserves”, responded the ENRE.
In addition, he assured that “the Enel Group has more than 1,500 MW out of service due to unscheduled unavailability in the GBA area among which are Central Costanera and Central Dock Sud”.
Edesur’s response
For its part, Edesur is not allowed in this regard “insufficient contribution of generationIt is important to note that one of the power generators in the southern zone is Central Dock Sus, a company managed by Enel together with other shareholders, and which has a combined cycle of almost 800 MW, ands say 3.2 times the missing energy on Friday”.
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And he remarked: “In this plant, modernization works were carried out that demand an investment of more than US$ 110 million”, and he assured that “This will allow adding almost 90 MW of power to the system, greater efficiency and significant improvements at an environmental level”.
Finally, Edesur explained that “the project started in 2021 and in October 2022 the disassembly and reassembly of the machines began, and it is now in its final phase”, and assured: “This work will use a contribution to the Argentine system, which will have advanced generation in the coming weeks,” quotes the Télam statement.
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