Cold showers and less artificial snow. The EU countries save energy to avoid bottlenecks. Nehammer is calling for an electricity price cap in the EU, while at the same time Wien Energie is in financial distress due to the increased prices.
Wien. Every day at ten o’clock in the morning the time has come: In the Kosovan capital Prishtina the lights go out, the radios go silent, and production stops in many companies. Kosovo is the first European country to resort to “rolling blackouts” in the energy crisis. Every six hours, the power is turned off for 120 minutes to avoid an uncontrolled blackout. Its own power plants do not supply enough – and one of the poorest countries in Europe can no longer afford electricity on the stock exchange.
The drought, the failure of the French nuclear power plants and the horrendous price of gas have catapulted the price for a megawatt hour of electricity to up to a thousand euros. That’s a problem. Not only in Prishtina.