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Power grid failure causes intermittent blackouts on Bulgaria's Black Sea coast
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Two power grid failures near Bulgaria's Black Sea coast have resulted in intermittent blackouts during the busy summer tourist season, Bulgarian media reported on July 23.
First, a power line owned by state-owned utility NEK, which operates the power grid, went offline on the evening of July 22. This was followed by another power line failure on the morning of July 23.
To prevent a complete blackout, NEK said it was rationing electricity deliveries to private distribution companies E.ON and EVN, whose customers were affected by the failures.
Ivan Ivanov, general director of grid operator ESO, a subsidiary of NEK, told Bulgarian National Television that consumers along the Black Sea coast will see an interruption in service throughout the day.
The exact time schedule would be decided by the distribution companies, but consumers could expect one-hour-long blackouts for every three hours that they had service. Teams on the ground in Varna and Bourgas, Bulgaria's two big Black Sea cities, were meant to ensure that no consumer would experience extensive interruption of service, he said.
The power grid failures were expected to fixed no later than the end of the day on July 24.
First, a power line owned by state-owned utility NEK, which operates the power grid, went offline on the evening of July 22. This was followed by another power line failure on the morning of July 23.
To prevent a complete blackout, NEK said it was rationing electricity deliveries to private distribution companies E.ON and EVN, whose customers were affected by the failures.
Ivan Ivanov, general director of grid operator ESO, a subsidiary of NEK, told Bulgarian National Television that consumers along the Black Sea coast will see an interruption in service throughout the day.
The exact time schedule would be decided by the distribution companies, but consumers could expect one-hour-long blackouts for every three hours that they had service. Teams on the ground in Varna and Bourgas, Bulgaria's two big Black Sea cities, were meant to ensure that no consumer would experience extensive interruption of service, he said.
The power grid failures were expected to fixed no later than the end of the day on July 24.
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what a joke one hour in three the power would be off,ha ha we live in orizari an we had three an a half hours electric in thirty five hours.an nearly lost our freezers