Weekly Report - 26 September 2024 (WR-24-38)

ARGENTINA | Blackouts. Argentina’s cabinet chief, Guillermo Francos, said on 22 September that if soaring temperatures led to a high demand for electricity, as expected, over the course of the southern hemisphere summer, there would have to be scheduled blackouts. “Regrettably there was not enough investment over the last few years, with the result that there will be insufficient power generation, meaning there will have to be scheduled blackouts,” Francos said on the local radio station Mitre.