Heat Wave Causes Buenos Aires Electrical Grid to Crash

[Yazata]

Temperatures reached 104 degrees today in Buenos Aires, everybody turned on their air conditioners, and the old poorly maintained grid couldn't take it knocking out electricity in many neighborhoods. Traffic lights were out, traffic was jammed (vastly worse than San Francisco's recent blackout) people were trapped in elevators and all kinds of bad stuff. They say that they will be restoring power in stages and that some neighborhoods might be blacked out in sweltering heat until January first. (People will be spending New Years Eve in 100 degree apartments.)

SinLuz!

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[Syne]

I wonder if this adds to the strain on their electrical grid:

While exact, real-time numbers for Buenos Aires alone are scarce, Argentina as a whole has around 36,400 hybrid/electric vehicles (mostly hybrids) circulating as of late 2024/early 2025, with significant growth driven by new import policies favoring Chinese brands like BYD, though EV penetration remains low but growing rapidly in the capital and nationally.
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