Swiss issues warning about probable winter outages
Date
7/24/2022 1:28:30 PM
(MENAFN) The Basler Zeitung newspaper revealed this week that Switzerland has created an emergency plan in the event of an energy crisis if natural gas and power supplies run low.
According to the article, the Swiss government has been working on the idea with industrial firms for some months.
It consists of multiple phases, ranging from a public awareness campaign urging energy conservation measures such as turning off store display lights and heaters to rationing power for around 30,000 big energy consumers.
As a more extreme step, the government also warns of the likelihood of power outages in certain sections of the country lasting four to eight hours every day. The strategy will be implemented if there is a power outage, according to Michael Frank, the chairman of the Association of Swiss Electricity Companies (VSE).
“You have to imagine this as a puzzle. Individual segments would be cut off for four hours, then turned back on while others are cut off. Some parts of the network – the pieces of the puzzle – would have no power for four hours, then have power again for four or eight hours depending on the situation,” Frank claimed.
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