News of power

BLOOMBERG

Energy companies would likely bear cost of Fernández’s utilities shift

01-10-2019 16:29 Energy companies would likely be made to pay for Alberto Fernández’s move to slow hikes in electricity and natural gas prices.

SALARIES

Government, firms, unions agree one-off payment for private-sector workers

24-09-2019 09:45 Parties "agree mandatory salary payment of 5,000 pesos for private-sector workers," announces production and labour minister.

DEMAND FROM TENANTS

Groups ask government to freeze rent fees as inflation soars

16-08-2019 15:49 Organisations dedicated to defending the rights of tenants ask Macri administration to introduce new measures to help renters make ends meet.

ANALYSIS: PASOs 2019

Macri, Fernández must begin transition of power now

12-08-2019 16:31 Alberto Fernández has still not woken up to the fact that he's the virtual president-elect. When he spoke on Sunday evening, upping the ante to gain even more votes in October, he spoke of "in the next two months." His problem starts now, in the next two days.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

GUEST VOICE

The Commander in CEO

06-07-2019 09:33 While it’s true that some political processes still play out over months and years, today we increasingly see politics move to the beat set by social media, whether via viral content, expediting key global geopolitical events, or via a late night presidential tweet.

by Andrei Serbin Pont

MASSIVE POWER CUT

Government blames firm's 'faulty reprogramming' for June 16 black-out

04-07-2019 18:27 "The Argentine electrical system is robust, [but] a chain of failures led to collapse," Lopetegui said as he faced questioning over the unprecedented shutdown.

ENERGY

Millions hit by ‘historic’ blackout

22-06-2019 08:23 Argentina is no stranger to blackouts but never on an almost nationwide scale as from 7.07am on Father’s Day last Sunday with power only starting to return as from 1.30pm.

Power outage

Experts say trust in single power line played role in historic outage

21-06-2019 08:33 Argentina's government said the origin of the blackout was in northeast Argentina and hope to provide a detailed explanation of what caused the outage in about 12 days.

Still no answers

Macri official insists: 'No chance of repeat blackout'

18-06-2019 14:07 Parts of Uruguay, all provinces in Argentina expect Tierra del Fuego and parts of Brazil were affected by Sunday's blackout.

Nationwide power outage

Macri gov't officials left scratching heads after historic blackout

17-06-2019 09:42 Energy Secretary Gusavo Lopetegui: 'We still have no information about what happened'.

ENVIRONMENT

Chile to close eight coal-fired power stations amid renewables push

04-06-2019 22:54 Chile, a net importer of energy, has relied increasingly on coal-powered electricity generation over the last decade, driven largely by the end of imports of natural gas from Argentina.

ELECTIONS 2019: CAMPAIGN WATCH

Never underestimate a ruling party

01-06-2019 09:02 This principle applies especially to this ruling party too, which has not been capable of sorting out the country’s severe and chronic economic problems but has proved to be a committed group of professionals whose electoral marketing is well above the local political median.

by Marcelo J. Garcia

ON POLITICAL COMMUNICATION

Shamanistic Macri

08-09-2018 08:25 What is evident is that the President has lost his oratory power, meaning his message does not appear genuine and therefore fails to have an impact on markets and people.

by Agustino Fontevecchia

AS I SEE IT

The old guard counter-attacks

04-08-2018 10:45 The rise of social media has provided defenders of the old order with a chance to tell the world they are defending Truth in the war to the death it is waging against purveyors of fake news.

by James Neilson

TECH GIANTS

Blood in Silicon Valley

28-07-2018 08:49 No longer are we amazed at the incredible growth of these fast-paced startups that promised to disrupt our world.

by Agustino Fontevecchia

AS I SEE IT

Waiting for what comes next

14-07-2018 09:15 Trump got to where he is because he sensed that his country was going in a direction which a great many people found alarming.

by James Neilson

AS I SEE IT

Cambridge Analytica rules the world, OK?

31-03-2018 10:49 A considerable number of influential men and women have come to the conclusion that both Brexit and Trump lack legitimacy.

by James Neilson

GUEST VOICE

Violence, sexual harassment the most important issues facing women today

17-03-2018 10:24 Argentines believe that, of the world’s top 500 companies, one in five (20 percent) has a female CEO – when the actual figure is just three percent.

by BRENDA LYNCH and INÉS LOVISOLO

Thursday heat index reached 40°C/102°F

92k homes across Buenos Aires suffer power outages during scorching night

09-02-2018 09:12 The cuts affected around 370,000 people on a day in which the heat index reached 40 degrees celsius (104 degrees fahrenheit)