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A dispute between the two south-eastern European states Serbia and Kosovo is said to be responsible for a voltage drop in the European power grid, which has caused many electronic clocks on the continent to run slow, Norbert Lossau writes in Die Welt. 鈥淪ince mid-January, the grid frequency stood at merely 49.996 Hertz on average鈥� instead of the 50 Hertz - or 50 swings per second -that are needed to keep the grid completely stable. The clocks perceive each second to be 0.8 percent too short, which adds up to a couple of minutes after a few weeks. The grid fluctuations are manageable this time, 鈥渂ut if the divergences from the target value increase, a collapse of the entire grid is possible鈥�, Lossau says. He argues the risk of a blackout increases because the energy transition makes a greater exchange of electricity across country borders necessary to balance intermittent feed-in from wind and solar power installations.
In a separate article, Christian Geinitz reports in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung that former German environment minister Klaus T枚pfer will travel to Serbia and Kosovo next week to mediate their quarrel. Both states are members to the European 麻豆无码版 Community and have pledged to align their energy policy to European law. T枚pfer says he intends to 鈥渆ase off the situation and highlight the ramifications鈥�. According to the newspaper, the difficulties in the grid between the two Balkan-states partly stem from the fact that Kosovo, which is not recognised as an independent state by Serbia and also by EU members like Spain or Romania, does not have its own grid control area.

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