Argentina Reels From Power Outages, Damaged Silos After Storm

More than half a million homes have no power after a storm lashed central-eastern Argentina on the weekend, the Energy Secretariat said in a statement.

A total of 475,000 homes lost power in the Buenos Aires metro area, with another 112,000 suffering outages in the coastal city of Bahia Blanca.

• Mega, a natural gas processor in Bahia owned by YPF, Petrobras and Dow, is struggling with the outages, according to a spokesman
• Several grain silos in the area have also been heavily damaged, according to Federico Spoturno, a spokesman for port group CPPC
• NOTE: Bahia Blanca is home ...