Southeastern Europe has been slammed by a seasonally early heatwave coupled with rampant power outages. Both are leaving Balkan countries at a standstill.
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00:00An hour's long power outage hit the Balkans on Friday, plunging the region into darkness.
00:07It comes off the back of an early June heatwave that saw temperatures climb to a sizzling
00:1240 degrees.
00:13Croatian officials blamed faulty energy infrastructure between Greece and Albania for the blackouts.
00:19I would not like to be misled by information, but it is preliminary that some faraway between
00:25Greece and Albania and that the flows have changed, but that is still a sphere of speculation
00:32and some unverified information.
00:35Bosnia's state power company said the outage was caused by problems in a regional distribution
00:40line, while Albania's state power company said extreme heat caused the problem.
00:45Montenegrin officials said the increased daily load compounded by high temperatures led to
00:50the outages.
00:51The energy infrastructure collapse led to businesses shuttering, traffic gridlock and
01:18imposed emergency safety measures.
01:21Montenegro, Croatia, Bosnia and Albania have shared interconnected power grids since 1990.