A large part of North Macedonia was briefly without power this morning due to an accident, local media reported.
The power supply was unexpectedly stopped at around 5 a.m. local time (6 a.m. Bulgarian time). Among the affected cities were Skopje, Prilep, Ohrid, Bitola, the news site SDK reported, quoted by BTA.
The company operating the electricity transmission system in North Macedonia (MEPSO) reported that there was a short-term power supply interruption to parts of the country's electricity system after a problem occurred in the 110-kilowatt transmission network. The cause of the outage, MEPSO specifies, was an inappropriately high voltage in the 400-kilowatt regional transmission network, which led to the temporary shutdown of transformers in several transformer stations, the Meta website reports.
The situation, as MEPSO specifies, is not an isolated case, but part of a broader European problem that occurs during the spring and summer months, when electricity consumption at night decreases and electricity transit continues.