An extensive outage of electricity that On Friday it affected some parts of the Czech Republic including Prague, occurred due to a technical failure, Prime Minister Petr Fiala informed after the Central Crisis Staff meeting. Excluded that the cause of Blackout was Cyber attack. Interior Minister Vít Austrian added that The government will have an analysis in an effort to avoid similar situations in the future. Meanwhile, electricity supplies have been renewed to all offtake points, TASR writes according to Novinky.cz and CT24.
Massive outage of electricity It was mainly affected by Prague, but also the Central Bohemian, Escape, Kingdom of Libere and Liberec regions. In the capital, among other things, briefly stopped the operation of trams and metro. They also delayed trains and firefighters rescued people from the lifts.“The outage was caused by a technical disorder,” Fiala said. The Energy Company of Čepps said the cause of the initial outage was the collapse of the phase conductor, which caused a cascading effect of a series of several technical errors. The cause of the driver’s failure will be investigated.
Without a stream, there were originally about a million people, Lukáš Vlček told reporters and trade. The full renewal of the transmission system and the introduction of all its switchgear under tension was reported by its resort and Čeps at approximately 15.00 CEST. CHEPS head Martin Durčák at a press conference just before 7 pm CEST confirmed that electricity supplies were restored to all offtake points in the Czech Republic.
The police said it did not record any hints of cyber or terrorist attack. According to Austrian, it is necessary to assure the public that it was not an intervention of foreign power or an attack on the Czech energy system. He also pointed out the speculation that arises in such incidents.
“There is always a lot of ‘experts’ who are clear but I would let real experts speak. We as the government will have Analysis of the situation including the type of future plans, ” said the Minister of the Interior. Also, according to Fiala, it will still be necessary to analyze all the events that have taken place, in order to find out exactly what happened.
