07/11/2012 | Argentina

Blackouts hit several City neighbourhoods

Power cuts affected several Buenos Aires City neighbourhoods, leading to heavy traffic jams in the main avenues, power cuts of traffic lights and suspension of train and subway lines' services.

08/11/2012 | Argentina

De Vido warns power demand will be close to record high today

03/01/2011 | Argentina

Gov’t reevaluating Edesur contract after blackouts

Planning Minister Julio De Vido ratified that the national government is poised to apply several fines to the Edesur energy company, adding that they would “reevaluate their contract” with them and contact the Italian embassy in order to express “their profound criticism” of the latest blackouts.

04/01/2011 | Argentina

Gov’t to conduct audit on Edesur

Amidst rumours of reevaluating their contract with Edesur, Planning Minister Julio De Vido announced that the National Electricity Regulator (ENRE) would be conducting an economic and technical audit on the energy supplier due to a series of power cuts that hurt thousands of users last week.

28/06/2012 | Argentina

Power cuts temporarily complicate transport across Buenos Aires

Several areas of the City and Greater Buenos Aires were temporarily left without electricity earlier today, which caused delays on public transport and traffic flow through the city.

02/07/2012 | World

Storms leave 2.1 million people in the US without power

More than 2.1 million people from Illinois to Virginia remained without power this morning after violent storms struck over the weekend, and a heat wave continued to blanket much of the region.

09/09/2011 | World

Power restored in US Southwest, Mexico after outage

Power was restored to some 7 million people plunged into darkness by a blackout blamed partly on "human failure" that snarled traffic, idled elevators and sent workers home early in parts of California, Mexico and Arizona.

17/01/2012 | World

Wikipedia to shut for 24 hours to stop anti-piracy act

Wikipedia, the popular community-edited online encyclopedia, will black out its English-language site for 24 hours to seek support against proposed US anti-piracy legislation that Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales said threatens the future of the Internet.

18/01/2012 | World

Websites go dark to protest piracy bills

Wikipedia, the world's free online encyclopedia, went dark and other Internet players including Google put black censorship bars on portions of their websites in protest of pending US legislation designed to curb online piracy.

26/10/2012 | Latin America

Brazil hit by new blackout, infrastructure in spotlight

A massive blackout left as many as 53 million Brazilians in the dark late Thursday and early Friday, the latest in a string of energy shortages that have raised questions about whether Brazil's infrastructure is keeping pace with economic growth.

07/04/2011 | Latin America

Blackout hits Venezuelan oil states, Caracas

Power cuts hit several Venezuelan regions including oil states and the capital Caracas, but refineries were not affected by the latest major blackout to hit the OPEC member.

24/09/2011 | Latin America

Power blackout stuns Chile, halts copper mines

A massive power blackout paralyzed crucial copper mines in Chile and darkened vast swaths of the country including the capital Santiago before energy started to be restored, officials said.

10/09/2012 | Latin America

Cuba says power mostly restored after massive blackout

A failure in a main transmission line in central Cuba caused a blackout that cut electricity for hours to more than half the country on Sunday night, but now power has been mostly restored, the government said.