With the entry of a new cold front, and when at least a week of days with winter records are expected, the Government and energy companies are looking for alternatives to avoid a lack of gas and electricity supply at a time when fluid consumption is shot and supply is restricted. In this way, industries must lower consumption to the technical minimum.
The energy system is in the pre-emergency stage, which consists of permanent monitoring with supply cuts for users with interruptible contracts, such as those with some industries and CNG stations. The snowfall that was recorded on Thursday night in the mountain area, in Córdoba and San Luis, and the low temperatures predicted for the coming days reinforced the alerts in official offices and in transport and distribution companies throughout the country.
In principle, service was cut to those interruptible contracts and will remain that way until the cold wave passes. Now, due to the evolution of demand, they have moved forward with the next step: that industries with a firm contract reduce their consumption to a minimum so that there are no gas shortages in homes or power outages.
With information from TN
