On a Tuesday afternoon, firefighters from Cuartel VIII in Río Seco attended a grass fire in the vicinity of the Parque Solar de Río Seco at kilometre 875 on Ruta Nacional 9. Using a high-pressure hose line and hand tools, crews put the fire out. It affected...
Energy incidents: Argentina
Incidents recorded in Argentina across battery storage, solar, wind, grid infrastructure and data centres.
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A fire broke out around 3 a.m. at a power station in the Tolosa district of La Plata, Buenos Aires province, reportedly causing a transformer operated by distributor Edelap to explode. The blaze had two major fronts, one along Camino General Belgrano and...
On a Saturday afternoon, around 3 pm, a fire broke out at a substation operated by Edesur in the Caballito neighbourhood of Buenos Aires. The flames started on the ground and first floors of electrical substation 122, a building about 25 metres wide and 40...
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Before dawn on a Saturday in May 2021, a fire at an electricity substation cut the utility power supply to the La Punta data centre, near the city of San Luis in Argentina. The power outage was detected at 2:55am. The substation sat in a separate building...
Municipal firefighters in Ullum, San Juan province, Argentina, were called on a Sunday morning by police headquarters to attend a fire at the Ullum photovoltaic park, owned by Argentinian energy company Genneia SA. On arrival, firefighters found that a number...
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