Power outages occurred in many countries in the Balkans at noon. The regional power outage, unprecedented in the region, also affected Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro, as well as Croatia and Albania. Montenegrin authorities said the outage was caused by an overload caused by increased electricity usage due to high temperatures. Due to the outage, tram and trolleybus services in the Balkan capitals were stopped and traffic was at a standstill.
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Power outages in the Balkans have brought life to a standstill. According to statements made by officials from regional countries, the electricity distribution system in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro was almost completely out of service due to a fault. Power outages were also seen in parts of Croatia and Albania.
Montenegro’s Minister of Energy and Mining, Sasa Mujovic, told the press that the cause of the power system failure was overload due to increased electricity usage due to high temperatures. “Almost the whole of Montenegro is without electricity due to supply shortages in the grid,” the Montenegrin Electricity Distribution System (CEDIS) said in a statement.
TRAM AND TROLLEY SERVICES STOPPED IN SARAJEVO
Traffic lights were out of service and many businesses were forced to suspend operations in Bosnia and Herzegovina due to a nationwide power outage. Trams and trolleybus services were halted in the capital Sarajevo. Bosnian authorities said the power outage affecting the region began with a problem with the power grid in Montenegro. In a statement released by Bosnia and Herzegovina’s public electricity provider Elektroprivreda, it was stated that the power outage was caused by a transmission line failure in the region and that this failure also affected the electrical system in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
POLICE ARE ALARMED
The power outage also affected certain parts of Croatia, especially the Dalmatian coast. Croatia also wrote that the power system failure started in Montenegro and that the outage affected Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia after Montenegro. In the Croatian city of Split, a large number of police were sent to the field due to traffic lights being out of service. When people caught in shopping malls due to the power outage returned to their vehicles en masse, traffic jams occurred in the garages of shopping malls.
ALBANIA ALSO AFFECTED
In Albania, power outages occurred in many cities including the capital Tirana, Durres, Shkodra and Saranda. The outage started at around 12:20 local time and gradually restored power to various regions within about an hour.
Source: UAV
