GfKV newsletter #03 – Society for Crisis Preparedness

Serious incident in the Central European power supply system on 8 January 2021

On Friday, 8 January 2021, at 2:05 p.m., a serious incident occurred in the European power supply system that led to a grid split in the largest interconnected power grid in the world. Fortunately, thanks to the excellent work of the European transmission system operators, it was resolved after around an hour.

Nevertheless, we should not lull ourselves into a false sense of security. There are still far too many open questions about how it could have come to this in the first place. It is particularly worrying when government bodies report incorrectly on such incidents in press releases (German) and, of all things, during such an extremely critical incident spread claims about a supposedly very secure power supply. This is completely counterproductive, because it seriously weakens the resilience of the population (“Why should anyone take precautions if there is no danger anyway?”). The population is bound to feel deceived – and the poor safety communication during the corona crisis is already bad enough. Unfortunately, this further ruins the credibility of official bodies and announcements.

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