“Dresden’s civil protection units train for blackouts”
Dresdner Neueste Nachrichten
Civil protection units in the eastern German city of Dresden “intensively train for a large-scale blackout”, Thomas Baum-Hartwig writes in Dresdner Neueste Nachrichten. Dresden’s mayor Detlef Sittel said the energy transition had made grids far more susceptible to disruption, “posing a major challenge for us”. Sittel also argued that the city increasingly relied on a stable electricity supply, for instance to keep hospitals and communication systems running.
Read the article in German here.
See the CLEW dossiers The energy transition and Germany’s power grid and Cities, municipalities and the Energiewende for background.
All texts created by the Clean Energy Wire are available under a
“Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence (CC BY 4.0)”
.
They can be copied, shared and made publicly accessible by users so long as they give appropriate credit, provide a
link to the license, and indicate if changes were made.