Power outage in Montenegro, parts of Bosnia and Croatia

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1. Quite surreal to be honest, I’ve experienced outage before for infrastructure work for example, but this is quite eerie because we still don’t know for how long the outage will last, hoping for a quick fix and decent battery life. And it doesn’t help that the temperatures are in the high 30’s, low 40’s.

2. Did it really have to happen on the hottest day of the year…

3. Parts of Albania seem to be affected as well

4. I am burning in Budva and now the electricity is gone, did it REALLY have to be this day??

5. This is unheard of.

6. Tuzla gained power back about 10 mins ago and Doboj seemed to have gotten power now

   Edit: Stanari seems to have lost power

7. Power is down on Hvar

8. Power still down in Okrug Gornji

9. Visiting the island Korčul. The scale of this power outage is a bit unnerving.

10. Power is down in Dugi Rat, Croatia – How do multiple different countries all lose power at this scale?

11. We’re now on holiday in Sarajevo and this just happened. Is this common? Any advice?

12. Power’s still out in Kotor…

13. Is there a resolution time or anything

14. Out in Sarajevo

15. Out in Zivogosce.

16. Croatian island here. Pekara is the last shop that is open. Everything else is shut now. Luckily I had my “morning” coffee right before the power went out 😀
    It’s going to be fun tonight when hungry tourists return from the beach and restaurants and shops are shut.
    I am used to local power outages, but this is huge.

17. Wasn’t prepared for this ngl. I
    Hope it’s resolved pretty soon

18. Maybe is a sun storm and the grid is afected. We have problems in Romania to

19. We were on a campervan tour of Croatia, because of the heat decided to rent a place with air-conditioning….. great timing

20. Some notes and thoughts as more information starts to trickle in:

    – it seems that the outage began in Montenegro, and then, because all three countries are interconnected, it flowed into parts of Bosnia and Croatia.

    – it will probably be solved within hours in the short term, as different countries divert parts of their infrastructure towards the affected parts. However, the underlying issue might take weeks to resolve and replace the fried parts, during which time the grid might be under pressure, especially with all the AC devices blowing full speed due to hot weather.

    – as for the cause, I’d guess it’s simply a very aged infrastructure that wasn’t prepared for around a million additional AC devices since the time it had been built. I doubt there was any sabotage involved, but I don’t doubt certain sides will be watching with glee how easy it might be to cripple energetic grids of a few countries (with Croatia, outages like this one could easily spell doom to the country’s economy, since it’s mostly based on tourism. If you can’t offer your guests reprieve from +40°C outside, they will choose different destinations).