Balkans Blackout: Start of the 2024 European Green Energy Outage Season?
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“… the infrastructure is not prepared for new energy feeds …”
Power outage hits Balkan states as heat overloads system, minister says
By Reuters
June 22, 20245:43 AM GMT+10 Updated 11 hours ago
PODGORICA, June 21 (Reuters) – A major power outage hit Montenegro, Bosnia, Albania and most of Croatia’s coast on Friday, disrupting businesses, shutting down traffic lights and leaving people sweltering without air conditioning in the middle of a heatwave.
Montenegro’s energy minister said the shutdown was caused by a sudden increase in power consumption brought on by high temperatures, and by the heat itself overloading systems. Power distribution is linked across the Balkans for transfers and trading.
Experts were still trying to identify where the malfunction originated, he added.
Shifts in the region’s energy supplies have put strains on its transmission systems, industry officials say.
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