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[size=85:2w58x94o]novinite 24 July 2010

Bulgarian Coastal Power Outage to Be Fully Fixed by Weekend

Crews of the Bulgarian National Electric Company (NEK) are continuing round-the-clock work to fix the two serious breakdowns of its electric posts, which left some Black Sea coast resorts without electricity.

It is expected that the major part of the power supply will be restored Saturday and power will be restored in full by the end of the weekend.

The temporary restraining power regime remains in effect for the area north of the Black Sea city of Burgas where the schedule is to have power for one hour and then interrupt it for one hour. The restrictions are carried out in accordance with the Energy Act, and are needed to prevent new power outages over the now increased demand during the tourist season. It is expected that the regime will be reinforced until the end of the day Saturday when the larger of the two damaged posts will be fixed. The works have, however, been hindered by the heavy rains in the area.

As far as the second post is concerned, NEK say their inspection showed the damage had been, most likely, triggered by a theft attempt or sabotage.

An additional 40 police officers will guard Bulgaria’s largest coastal resort “Sunny Beach,” Energy Minister, Traicho Traikov, informs. He met Friday with hotel owners and tour operators who have been affected by the outage and visited the areas of damage.

20 other police officers will guard the resort town of Nessebar.

Traikov promised the tourist business that power will be fully restored by the end of the weekend.


Tourists Leave Bulgarian Beach Resort over Power Outage

Scores of foreign tourists at Bulgaria’s largest Black Sea resort “Sunny Beach” are asking for cancellations and compensations of their vacation stay.

The reason for the request is the mass power outage in a number of resorts in the country’s southern Black Sea cost that began Friday.

The President of the Union of “Sunny Beach” hotel owners, Elena Yordanova, says the resort currently has about 300 000 holidaymakers and a large number have left ahead of the planned end of their vacation over the lack of electric power and, consequently, air conditioning and hot water.

Meanwhile, the Russian daily “Komsomolskaya Pravda” published an article, mocking the country for the problem and saying: “Don’t forget to pack candles if are planning to on vacation in Bulgaria.”

The latest update from the Bulgarian National Electric Company (NEK), which owns the two damaged posts, is that power will be restored by 2 pm Saturday.

yer right Sarah [You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]
me books almost full with them

As everyone knows, storks are highly dangerous and, in fact, threaten the very existence of humankind in all sorts of ways

coriolanus wrote:

As everyone knows, storks are highly dangerous and, in fact, threaten the very existence of humankind in all sorts of ways

Very good George and Sarah its very true that anything but the truth will always prevail with something like this

[size=55:148iwxis]novinite 14 August 2010

Top Bulgarian Sea Resorts May End Up without Power for Days

Failure to implement certain electricity supply restrictions might lead to a grid collapse that could leave Bulgaria's southern Black Sea coast without power for days, including the Sunny Beach resort.

This has been reported by the bTV channel citing dispatchers from the state Electricity System Operator (ESO), a government company in charge of the monitoring and control of power supply.

The ESO has stated that there are no formally introduced scheduled electricity supply restrictions as was initially announced Friday night but that it has told local power utility EVN to restrict the power supply to certain towns and resorts in the area at its own discretion.

Thus, instead of the scheduled restrictions under which the resorts were supposed to have power five out of every six hours, the supply will be terminated temporarily at various parts of the day depending on the consumption.

The power at various smaller towns, villages, and resorts north of the city of Burgas was reported to have been shut off for periods of about 1 hour between 7 pm and 11 pm Friday night in order to reduce the consumption by 15 MW.

If the total consumption of electricity in the region reaches again 200 MW as it nearly did on Friday, the grip might collapse, and it will take days to rectify the problem, bTV reported.

At last a reasoned explanation

All this rubbish about storks

In fact the real danger from large birds is that they may fly into the Power lines and give a very temporary outage. This caused buy the fact that the birds short circuit across the power lines. This is offset by circuit breakers that have a device that will see the temporary short circuit (Temporary because the birds die and fall away) and will then remake the supply. These are called auto remake breakers.

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tonyb60 wrote:

At last a reasoned explanation

All this rubbish about storks

In fact the real danger from large birds is that they may fly into the Power lines and give a very temporary outage. This caused buy the fact that the birds short circuit across the power lines. This is offset by circuit breakers that have a device that will see the temporary short circuit (Temporary because the birds die and fall away) and will then remake the supply. These are called auto remake breakers.

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Absolutely right Tony couldn't have put it better, it comes back the the common sense of a sparky who knows what he's talking about

[size=55:1ym5v93q]novinite 14 August 2010

Voluntary Restrictions Supposed to Save Bulgarian Resorts from Power Outages

Bulgaria's National Electric Company NEK is relying on “voluntary restrictions” of electricity consumption in order to save some of the country's top Black Sea resorts from power outages and officially scheduled electricity supply cuts.

NEK declared Saturday afternoon that despite media reports no formal scheduled restrictions of electricity supply have been introduced along the southern Bulgarian Black Sea coast, including the Sunny Beach resort.

The region north of the city of Burgas has been plagued with frequent power outages in the last three weeks as a result of the insufficient capacity of the local power lines to handle the over-consumption of electricity caused by the use of air-conditioners in the overcrowded resorts.

Sources from local power utility EVN and the Electricity System Operator (ESO), the state company monitoring the electricity supply, were cited Friday night as announcing that restrictions of the supply will be introduced because of the likelihood that the entire power grid in the region around Sunny Beach might collapse in an outage whose fixing will last for days.

Instead of introducing the respective restrictions, however, NEK said it had the promise of the union of hotel owners in Sunny Beach that they will do their best to reduce electricity consumption in the largest Bulgarian resort in the hours between 6 pm and 10 pm every evening. They have also called upon the tourists to contribute to these measures by saving electricity.

Local hotel owners have expressed skepticism about the effects of the proposed voluntary “electricity austerity measures” as they have no means of banning their hotel guests from turning on the air-conditioners in their rooms, and have few other ways of cutting electricity consumption.

Another highly controversial measure allowed by NEK is the turning on and off of the electricity supply in the villages and towns around the Sunny Beach resort if the consumption in the region starts nearing 200 MW. Thus, the town of Pomorie as well as the smaller resorts of Ravda and Irakli saw power outages at various times Friday evening.

Speaking live on the bTV channel, hotel owners have expressed their indignation at the existing situation including the fact that the energy authorities did not make it clear until later on Saturday whether formal electricity supply restrictions have been introduced.

Some owners have expressed an opinion in favor of scheduled restrictions in order to save them the unpleasant likelihood of ending up without power at any single moment.

“We cannot plan anything. The other day there was no electricity for one hour, yesterday there was no electricity for an hour and a half, and these happen at different times. They don't warn us, and don't tell us anything, our guests are left in the dark,” complained Elisaveta Toncheva, an owner of a hotel in Ravda.

NEK said that the problems with the electric supply of Sunny Beach, a resort which say dramatic overdevelopment in the last 15 years, can be solved by constructing a third power line in addition to the two already in existence. The new power line should be 30 km long, and will connected Sunny Beach with a major power line at the town of Aytos.

An ESO dispatcher told bTV that the problem with the excessive consumption of electricity in Sunny Beach was technically imported from the capital Sofia as thousands of Sofia residents left the city for vacations along the southern Black Sea coast.

According to NEK, the consumption of electricity in Sunny Beach grew by 15% compared with last summer, and has reached values of about 110% of the capacity of the regional power grid, which was saved from collapsing with a controlled power outage Friday night.

In July, a similar power outage that lasted almost 48 hours hit the Sunny Beach resort leading scores of foreign tourists to leave. The Bulgarian institutions have started an investigation of the blackout but have not announced their final findings yet even though at some point a minister revealed suspicions of “malicious damage.” The investigation is now focused on the state company NEK.

“We cannot plan anything. In Bulgaria? I just don't believe it!!

And you gotta love this:

They don't warn us, and don't tell us anything, our guests are left in the dark,” Well, in a power cut, I suppose they would be left in the dark.........But, they don't warn them and don't tell them anything. Again, I just can't believe this would happen in Bulgaria.

see more excuses eh!

dudnt bulgarians have a holiday last year from sofia ????????
arnt aircons paid for in the holiday folks buyand expect to use in hot climate.????????Little notice os cuts !!!!!!!!!!
dont they know what PR is ?????surely they have a duty of care under EU standards?????????
there a loda PANTS.
My bungalow is op for sale cheap and i am outta here ASAP.

New Power Cut Hits Bulgaria's Southern Black Sea Coast

Bulgarian power utility EVN has announced restrictions of the electricity supply for the region north of the Black Sea city of Burgas.

EVN says that the Central Dispatcher Unit of the Electricity System Operator (ESO), a state company monitoring power supply, ordered the power cut effective as of 7 pm on Saturday.

The privately-owned power utility has obeyed the order of the state company, and has focused its efforts on keeping the electricity cut for the region of the largest Bulgarian Black Sea resort Sunny Beach as brief as possible, similar to the situation on Friday when ESO issued the same order for the region north of Burgas.

The power supply to the Sunny Beach area will be restored by EVN with a new order of ESO.

The EVN announcement about a power cut comes just hours after the state-owned National Electric Company NEK denied the introduction of officially scheduled electricity supply restrictions, and urged hotel owners and tourists in the region to reduce the extreme power consumption voluntarily.

Bets are being taken on Sunny Beach going down completely for a minimum of three days. Current odds are 50/1 on.

is eon a bulgarian company, cause they rip you off big style, the first year my bills were 1,ooo, and 450, or 275, or 365 and the lowest 52 levs, we complained every month and they stated we had never been to their office to report this, yet we had. when we put a complaint in writing, no one would take it from us, we threatened that our lawyer would deliver it and the kmet had a copy. the next day 10 men were at the metre board, my metre went and we got a new digital one, my bills went down to 50 levs and 120 in the height of winter, what a difference, but if you go away for 2 weeks your bill is higher than the last one, and the christmas bill is twice the last one. something not right here. i wrote to germany and my post was redirected to varna where i had the issue of wrong bills, they stated that the fault lay at the entry point to my home making it my problem and they were not responsible. says it all really. bulgaria has a lot to learn. we are not fools.

starlite wrote:

is eon a bulgarian company, cause they rip you off big style, the first year my bills were 1,ooo, and 450, or 275, or 365 and the lowest 52 levs, we complained every month and they stated we had never been to their office to report this, yet we had. when we put a complaint in writing, no one would take it from us, we threatened that our lawyer would deliver it and the kmet had a copy. the next day 10 men were at the metre board, my metre went and we got a new digital one, my bills went down to 50 levs and 120 in the height of winter, what a difference, but if you go away for 2 weeks your bill is higher than the last one, and the christmas bill is twice the last one. something not right here. i wrote to germany and my post was redirected to varna where i had the issue of wrong bills, they stated that the fault lay at the entry point to my home making it my problem and they were not responsible. says it all really. bulgaria has a lot to learn. we are not fools.

EON is a German company, but they have problems wherever they run their operations such as BG, UK and even Germany. This is because they DO rip you off big style. Unfortunately, EON, CEZ and EVN are each monopolies in their own areas, so you can't switch to someone else. I've had so many problems with EON, it would take me 28 pages to list them all here, so I won't bother. Suffice it to say, I was in touch with EON Germany, Dobrich and Balchik all at the same time at one point and they are all useless and there is no Ombudsman to go to here. Only Solvit?

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Not responsible"
?? Are they ever??

Regards, George.

It really dosen't matter to much who owns who? what it is important is that they think they can do what they like and then treat everyone as an idiot

[size=55:33bj869l]novinite 16 August 2010

Bulgarian Black Sea Coast Experiences Latest Blackout

The southern Bulgarian Black Sea coast continues to experience problems with the electric power supply, turning everyday life and vacation into an ordeal for thousands of residents and visitors.

Areas north on the Black Sea City of Burgas and the historic beach town of Sozopol woke up without light, air conditioning and hot water again Monday morning.

Since the end of July, on several occasions, many resorts were left without electricity due to a series of failures of electric posts owned by the National Electric Company (NEK) and increased demand over the continuous scorching heat wave.

The Austrian-owned power utility EVN was forced to introduce restrictions in the power supply which were lifted just days ago by an order of NEK.

NEK further informed that a restrictive regime for the use of electricity is not pending as it was announced last Friday and vacationers and hotel owners do not need to worry, but added they have asked the latter to limit themselves the consumption of electric power as much as possible in the largest resort Sunny Beach, especially between 7 pm and 10 pm when the demand is the highest in order to avoid further failures in the network.