{"id":7696,"date":"2024-06-27T23:30:54","date_gmt":"2024-06-27T23:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/balkansnews.com\/balkan-region-hit-by-major-power-outage-during-heatwave-climate-news\/"},"modified":"2024-06-27T23:30:54","modified_gmt":"2024-06-27T23:30:54","slug":"balkan-region-hit-by-major-power-outage-during-heatwave-climate-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balkansnews.com\/hr\/balkan-region-hit-by-major-power-outage-during-heatwave-climate-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Balkan region hit by major power outage during heatwave | Climate News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p class=\"article__subhead css-1wt8oh6\"><em>Cause of blackout remains unknown, but early indications point to spike in electricity use due to severe heat enveloping the region.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>A major electricity blackout has hit Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania and most of Croatia\u2019s Adriatic coast, leaving people sweltering in the middle of a severe heatwave.<\/p>\n<p>Temperatures in Montenegro\u2019s capital, Podgorica, reached 38 degrees Celsius (100 degrees Fahrenheit) on Friday. Power distributor CEDIS said \u201cnetwork outages\u201d cut power across most of the country.<\/p>\n<p>Sasa Mujovic, Montenegro\u2019s energy minister, told local media the electricity outage was regional in nature and linked to the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/amp\/news\/2024\/6\/21\/balkan-regions-hit-by-major-power-outage\">izvor <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cause of blackout remains unknown, but early indications point to spike in electricity use due to severe heat enveloping the region. A major electricity blackout has hit Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania and most of Croatia\u2019s Adriatic coast, leaving people sweltering in the middle of a severe heatwave. Temperatures in Montenegro\u2019s capital, Podgorica, reached 38 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,341],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7696","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-croatia","7":"category-croatia-hr"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balkansnews.com\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balkansnews.com\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balkansnews.com\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balkansnews.com\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balkansnews.com\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/balkansnews.com\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balkansnews.com\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balkansnews.com\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balkansnews.com\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}