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The pandemic became a stress test for Austria’s power grid. The network held. But Austrians have to pay more and more for this security. To cope with the expansion of renewable energy, the system must be rethought.
It has been a while since electricity has not come out of the socket in all of Austria. Nearly half a century ago, on April 13, 1976, a forest fire near Frankfurt destroyed a switch in a nearby substation. 13 minutes later, all of Austria was without electricity. However: In the “record time of one hour and five minutes” the power grid was rebuilt, wrote the “Arbeiter-Zeitung” at the time. It was the last major blackout the country experienced. Few things flow as reliably as Austrian electricity. The pandemic has not changed that. But it was close.
