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Montenegro’s Vijesti TV said a fire had been spotted in a 400KW transmission line in a rugged area along the border with Bosnia – though it was not immediately clear if this could have been the cause of outages or in some way related to them.
The report cited unnamed sources from the electric transmission company CGES which, it said, would need helicopters to access the site.
Albanian Energy Minister Belinda Balluku said there had been a breakdown in an interconnector between Albania and Greece and he had heard there had been similar circumstances in Montenegro and parts of Croatia and Bosnia.
A full investigation would take time, but early analysis suggested that “big volumes of power in the transmission system at the moment and very high temperatures in record levels have created this technical problem,” Balluku added in a video address.
Power in Albania was restored within half an hour, but the country remained at a high risk of further shutdowns as power usage and heat levels were still high, he said.
Shifts in the region’s energy supplies have put strains on its transmission systems, industry officials say.
Western Balkan nations have seen a boom in solar energy investment, meant to ease a power crisis that had threatened a shift away from coal.
But the infrastructure is not prepared for new energy feeds, the president of North Macedonia’s Energy Regulatory Commission and other industry figures told Reuters in April last year.
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Reporting by Aleksandar Vasovic; additional reporting by Daria Sito-Sucic in Sarajevo, Stevo Vasiljevic in Podgorica and Fatos Bytyci in Pristina; editing by Jason Neely and Andrew Heavens
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