Buenos Aires, December 4, 2025 (NA) – Just days after nearly 6 million users in the City of Buenos Aires and the Greater Buenos Aires area were forced to pay their electricity bills in advance, temperatures soared to 35°C, leaving 12,315 Edesur and 3,578 Edenor users without power. Outages reported by Edesur in the low-voltage service affected the districts of Almirante Brown; Berazategui, Esteban Echeverría, Lanús, Lomas and Quilmes. And in Ezeiza and San Vicente for medium-voltage. The outages in the city covered the neighborhoods of Balvanera, Barracas, Caballito, Flores, Floresta, Villa Devoto, Villa General Mitre and Villa Santa Rita. Edenor cut service in Merlo, San Antonio de Padua, Ituzaingó, Morón, Castelar, Pilar, Ciudad Evita, Virrey del Pino, Moreno, while in the capital it did so in Palermo, Chacarita, Coghlan, Núñez, Villa Ortuzar, Villa Pueyrredón. Users without supply, at 18:40: Edesur 3269 MW and Edenor 4230 MW; Edesur 9256 outages, Edenor 3661 outages. "We are calling on Edesur to account for the deplorable 'service' of this national company to our neighbors in José Mármol," stated Mariano Cascallares to add that due to the lack of response from the National Electricity Regulatory Entity (ENRE) "we demand that the company Edesur -which demonstrates a manifest inefficiency- adopt urgent measures to guarantee the supply". As a result of the actions of the Consumer Protection Service, bonuses were granted for services not rendered to users who registered complaints about supply cuts, in addition to compensation for damages caused. Advance payment of bills According to the calculation of the entities grouped in CUNRE, the advance payment of the bills, from a request by the electricity companies authorized by the ENRE, will be 50% to be paid in December and 50% in January, under the title of 'monthly migration adjustment' together with the total amount (of the corresponding month) on the bills. This additional charge could generate extra income for the privatized companies Edenor and Edesur in more than 60 million dollars, just as they close the 2025 fiscal year. Bills with additional amounts between 10,000 and 80,000 pesos represent some 90 billion pesos, equivalent to 60.7 million dollars, that the distributors would receive for the advance payment, denounced from Deuco. Edesur: pay first, deliver later Edesur, controlled by the Italian state company Enel, hinted that this cash relief will allow it to settle its debt with the Wholesale Electricity Market Administrator (Cammesa). Quite the opposite: "Edesur indicated that the aforementioned temporal discrepancy has additionally generated a mismatch in the distributor's collection flow, regarding the payment schedule for energy to Cammesa," reads the ENRE resolution. The bills, in addition to the surcharge for the model change, arrived with a 3.6% increase for Edenor users and 3.53% for Edesur users, authorized by the Government. Since Milei took office, there have been tariff hikes of 600%. Thus, summer arrived, the period of highest energy consumption, and investments have not been made, as was evident in these days. Faced with this, the Government seeks a striking solution: to contract the energy and power contribution from backup sources from large users, mostly industries and shopping malls, that have generator sets. The scheme provides for a mechanism similar to an auction: companies and shopping centers will be able to bid on the available capacity. The successful bidders will receive a fixed charge for keeping their equipment available and a variable remuneration for the energy they actually inject into the system, on the days and hours determined by Cammesa. But instead of investment, the Government responded with more benefits. In March, as part of the Five-Year Tariff Reviews, the ENRE substantially reduced the fines that companies must pay for non-compliance. Resolutions 160 and 162 of 2025 diluted them by changing the calculation methodology. Thus, companies will pay 40% of what they paid for the same infractions. Finally, the 2026 Budget Bill includes a compensation of $800 billion for Edenor and Edesur for the increases that could not be applied before the change of government.
