Confirmed: Blackout Caused by Downed Power Lines and Other Unexpected Outages

Novinky.cz

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A major power outage in the Czech Republic last Friday was caused by a power line falling between two municipalities in the Ústí nad Labem region. Overflows from Germany due to large-scale photovoltaic and wind power generation were not to blame, officials from the state-owned transmission system operator ČEPS announced on Thursday.

Živě.cz

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On July 4th, the Czech Republic experienced the largest power outage in memory. As a result, we were perhaps more surprised by poor communication from ČEPS, the company that operates the country's backbone transmission networks. The extensive outage was triggered by a fault in the power line. Within a few minutes, a cascade of events unfolded that ...

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The so-called "diablitos" (little devils) were the cause of the blackouts recorded last Wednesday in various neighborhoods of Mexicali, which lasted more than eight hours, according to Governor Marina del Pilar Ávila Olmeda. The state governor noted that, according to the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) report, these devices overloaded the state-owned company's transformers... Source

Hospodářské Nnoviny (HN.cz)

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A criminal and incompetent government that will never tell you the truth. This was the tone Andrej Babiš set at the beginning of his speech to voters on the cause of the power outage that hit part of the Czech Republic on Friday. His six-minute video has a wide reach thanks to the fact that it is being spread like a machine that he has designed for...

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The cause of the blackout was a combination of several outages, but the reason remains unclear, ČEPS said. It ruled out system overload and damage by a third party. It also began extraordinary inspections of key power lines using thermal imaging.

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The cause of Friday's extensive power outage in part of the Czech Republic was the coincidence of several outages, but the reason for the coincidence is still unclear. This was stated by Martin Durčák, the chairman of the board of directors of ČEPS, at a press conference. He ruled out overloading of the system, overflows or damage by a third party, and according to him, the system was operating reliably before the outage. The line whose outage l…