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27 Jul 2017

“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.

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See the 91tv dossiers The energy transition and Germany’s power grid and Cities, municipalities and the Energiewende for background.

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